Quotes
Quotes - Shaw
A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked-down quarry, the destined prey.
Marry Ann and at the end of a week you 'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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.
