Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
- George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
- George Bernard Shaw
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- George Bernard Shaw
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
- George Bernard Shaw
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
- George Bernard Shaw
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
- George Bernard Shaw