George Bernard Shaw Quote #1
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #2
[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #3
[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #4
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #5
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #6
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #7
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #8
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #9
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #10
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #11
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #12
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #13
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #14
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #15
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #16
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #17
A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...
George Bernard Shaw Quote #18
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #19
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]George Bernard Shaw Quote #20
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #21
And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation. (P. 56)
George Bernard Shaw Quote #22
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #23
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #24
As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with
which we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,
including our legal ways of distributing income and allowing people to own things, are natural, like the weather. They are not. Because they exist everywhere in our little world, we take it for granted that they have always existed and must always exist, and that they are self-acting. That is a dangerous mistake. They are in fact transient makeshifts; and many of them would not be obeyed, even by well-meaning people, if there were not a policeman within call and a prison within reach. They are being changed continually by Parliament, because we are never satisfied with them.... At the elections some candidates get votes by promising to make new laws or to get rid of old ones, and others by promising to keep things just as they are. This is impossible. Things will not stay as they are.
Changes that nobody ever believed possible take place in a few generations. Children nowadays think that spending nine years in school, oldage and widows’ pensions, votes for women, and short-skirted ladies in Parliament or pleading in barristers’ wigs in the courts are part of the order of Nature, and always were and ever shall be; but their great-grandmothers would have set down anyone who told them that such things were coming as mad, and anyone who wanted them to come as wicked.George Bernard Shaw Quote #25
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #26
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #27
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #28
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw Quote #29
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw Quote #30
Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.
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