George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Irish playwright. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
(1856 - 1950)
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
[One Day]
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
[Art]
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
[Funny]
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A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
[Progress]
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
[Learning]
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
[Never]
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
[Idleness]
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A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
[Pessimism]
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
[Soldier]
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