George Bernard Shaw Quotes

LIZA. Oh, you ARE a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don’t care a bit for her. And you don’t care a bit for me.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think? LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.

Rasa ingin tahu adalah kunci yang membuka pintu pengetahuan.

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

El cristianismo podría ser bueno si alguien intentara practicarlo.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short, a gentlemanly gas – deadly by all means, but humane not cruel.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

It is the people who hate poverty, not those who sympathize with it, who will put an end to it.

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?

HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

انني أكتب لكي أخلق شعبا جديدا بآرائي وأفكاري التي أبثها في رواياتي وقصصي

Rasa ingin tahu adalah kunci yang membuka pintu pengetahuan.” –

ما أجمل النظافة ولكن ما أعظمها عندما تكون في عقولنا

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