Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Prirodzený ?as, dokedy ?udský živo?ích pociÃ…Â¥uje lásku ku svojim potomkom, je Å¡esÃ…Â¥ rokov.

What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process.

O matrimónio não é a loteria. Na loteria algumas vezes ganha-se.

Alguns homens vêem as coisas como são, e dizem 'Por quê?' Eu sonho com as coisas que nunca foram e digo 'Por que não ?

The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

OCTAVIUS. Even if it were so—and I don't admit it for a moment—it is out of the deadliest struggles that we get the noblest characters. TANNER. Remember that the next time you meet a grizzly bear or a Bengal tiger, Tavy. OCTAVIUS. I meant where there is love, Jack. TANNER. Oh, the tiger will love you.

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness.

You scandalous woman, will you throw away even your hypocrisy?

He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.

No es ningún mérito sufrir

You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it.

Nothing that's worth saying is proper.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

In hell old age is not tolerated. It is too real. Here we worship Love and Beauty. Our souls being entirely damned, we cultivate our hearts.

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.

At every one of those concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. Well, there is the same thing in heaven. A number of people sit there in glory, not because they are happy, but because they think they owe it to their position to be in heaven. They are almost all English.

Banyak orang mengeluh tentang problem-problem yang selalu menghadang mereka untuk mencapai kesuksesan. Tetapi aku tidak percaya akan adanya problem-problem didunia ini justru yang mencari-cari problem yang mereka inginkan, dan bila tidak mereka temukan, mereka menciptakan problem-problem itu

The rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-makes and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings" to misfit all stories.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. I wish you'd left me where you found me.