Quotes
Quotes - Shaw
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Wot prawce Selvytion nah?
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
