George Bernard Shaw Quotes

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:music hell

“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:desire satisfaction

“he's a gentleman: look at his boots.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

topic:appearance

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

topic:living

“Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:politics democracy

“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 third-class carriages, and...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:danger fight

“If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

topic:satisfaction

“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:eternity heaven

“In short, the way to avoid misunderstanding is for everybody to lie and slander and insinuate and pretend as hard as they can. That is what obeying your mother comes to.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:lie

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