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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author’s equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don’t want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it’s a man or a dog; they’re the best for every day  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I hear you say why? Always why? You see things; and you say why? But I dream things that never were; and I say why not?  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I worship you, eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can’t have a whirlpool without water; and you can’t have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order and morals  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it as his duty  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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