George Bernard Shaw: Man (page 2)

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

“… 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.”

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”

“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”

“The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [indicating her body], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.”

“I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.”

“A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.”

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”