George Bernard Shaw Quotes

El cristianismo podría ser bueno si alguien intentara practicarlo.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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.

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

the truth about the paradoxes of Bernard Shaw. Each of them is an argument impatiently shortened into an epigram. Each of them represents a truth hammered and hardened, with an almost disdainful violence until it is compressed into a small space, until it is made brief and almost incomprehensible.

The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

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