George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 7)

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”

“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.”

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…”

“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”

“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

“The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!”