George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 12)

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

“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.”

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation”

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?”

“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

“What is life but a series of inspired follies…”

“I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.”

“If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.”

“A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.”

“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”

“I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”

“I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.”

“I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.”