George Bernard Shaw

“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.”

“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”

“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”

“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat?Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.”

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. ”

“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages. ”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

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

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!”

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

“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.”

“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”

“Shall I turn up the light for you?No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”

“Selama masih memiliki keinginan, saya mempunyai alasan untuk hidup.”

“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“Membenci adalah pembalasan orang pengecut yang diintimidasi.”

“What is life but a series of inspired follies...”

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

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."— Churchill's response”

“It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.”

“But to admire a strong personand to live under that strong person’s thumb aretwo different things.”

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means makingtrouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

“No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.”

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”

“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”

“The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”

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