George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
George Bernard ShawJust do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard ShawIf you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard ShawNothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard ShawWithout art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard ShawThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard ShawA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawReading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard ShawI showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard ShawPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard ShawI am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard ShawNothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard ShawTo be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
George Bernard ShawThe liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard ShawYouth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard ShawThere are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard ShawI can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard ShawExcept during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard ShawEvery man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard ShawDo not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard ShawImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard ShawIt is most unwise for people in love to marry
George Bernard ShawNo man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard ShawThis is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard ShawHell is to drift; heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
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