George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Love Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Love Quotes , Inspirational Quotes

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Broken Heart Quotes

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Girl Quotes

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Violence Quotes , Illiterate Quotes

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Women Quotes , Mean Quotes

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Death Quotes , Religious Quotes

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Errors Quotes , Race Quotes

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Country Quotes , Motherhood Quotes

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Kings Quotes , Patriotic Quotes

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Religious Quotes

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Art Quotes , Home Quotes

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , School Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mean Quotes , May Quotes

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Respect Quotes , Integrity Quotes

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Learning Quotes

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Firsts Quotes

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dog Quotes , Men Quotes

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Funny Inspirational Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes