Quotes
Quotes - Shaw
Assassination: The extreme form of censorship.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
A 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.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
Bad artists always admire each others work.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
