George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), also known simply as Bernard Shaw at his insistence, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. He is also known as one of the best playwrights in English literature.Wisdom & Quotes
- The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
- It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
- Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- While we have prisons, it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
- The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder.
- The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- I never expect a soldier to think.
- He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
- Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- Pickering: Have you no morals, man?
- Pygmalion
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
- The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
- Property is organized robbery.
- I have been a common man and a poor man; and it has no romance for me.
- He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated.
- A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.
- Science is always simple and profound. It is only the half truths that are dangerous.
- My way of joking is to tell the truth.
- Dear sir, your profession has, as usual, destroyed your brain.
- All progress means war with society.
- There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.
- I have never smoked in my life and look forward to a time when the world will look back in amazement and disgust to a practice so unnatural and offensive.
Louis D Brandeis