Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

the world will forgive you for the sake of your blazing boyishness. (Written to Lord Alfred Douglas)

I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.

It's unwise to be born; it's unwise to be married; it's unwise to live; and it's unwise to die. - Buhon

Spisovate? je ?lovek, ktorému nesta?ia knihy tých druhých.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Bridegroom! What a word! It makes a man realize his position, somehow.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life

Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. The Devil's Disciple, Act II

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Membenci adalah pembalasan orang pengecut yang diintimidasi.

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

La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo

The great difficulty with communication is the illusion it has been accomplished.

At the end of six months you shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the King finds out you're not a lady, you will be taken by the police to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls. If you are not found out, you shall have a present of seven-and-sixpence to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer you will be a most ungrateful wicked girl; and the angels will weep for you.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you wouldn't read yourself.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of. No, Eliza: do as this lady does: think of other people's futures; but never think of your own. Think of chocolates, and taxis, and gold, and diamonds.

Ive taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best looking women in the world. I'm seasoned. They might as well be blocks of wood. I might as well be a block of wood.