George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 10)

“I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum”

“Shall I turn up the light for you?

No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

“But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person’s thumb are
two different things.”

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”

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

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”

“… a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

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

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island…”

“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”