George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Sports Quotes, Men Quotes

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes , Easy Quotes

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Questions And Answers Quotes

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Play Quotes , Sweat Quotes

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Witty Quotes , People Quotes

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Society Quotes , Today Quotes

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Soul Quotes

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , People Quotes

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Morality is not respectability.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Ethics Quotes , Morality Quotes

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hero Quotes , Europe Quotes

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Taken Quotes , White Quotes

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Moments Quotes

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Sarcasm Quotes

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Novel Quotes , Clear Quotes

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Knighthood Quotes , Enough Quotes

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Lying Quotes , Believe Quotes

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Acting Quotes , Doe Quotes