~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

[MysteRy]

Fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

[MysteRy]

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

[MysteRy]

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

[MysteRy]

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

[MysteRy]

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

[MysteRy]

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

[MysteRy]

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

[MysteRy]

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

[MysteRy]

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

[MysteRy]

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

[MysteRy]

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.