George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 12

• I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pain, Men, Islam

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• When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Slave, Masters

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3152, e-artnow

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• A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expectations, Miracle, Purpose

  Saint Joan (1924) sc. 2

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• Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eggs, Judging, Judgement

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• Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Money, Civilization

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2254, e-artnow

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• Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  May, Serious, Rebellious

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2997, e-artnow

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• The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Art, Men

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, United States, Idiot

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• The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, People, Majority

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1762, e-artnow

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• In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Science, Giving

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• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Vices, Virtue

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

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• Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Political, Politics

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Saint Joan”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

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• The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Zero, Wife

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5144, e-artnow

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• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Honesty, Temperature, Absurd

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• I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Hate, Looks

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• Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Self

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Self-Sacrifice"

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• Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Institutions, Humans

  1903 Don Juan. Man and Superman, act 3.

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• Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Golf, Typical, Capitalist

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Silly, Writing

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Wedding

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Not Good Enough, Half, Educate

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• An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, Would Be, Asylums

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• The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Generations, Lasts

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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