Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted to another shoulder.

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories d'individus : Ceux qui regardent le monde tel qu'il est et se demandent pourquoi. Ceux qui imaginent le monde tel qu'il devrait être et qui se disent : pourquoi pas ?

En todos los conciertos clásicos que se dan en Inglaterra verás filas de gente cansada que están allí, no porque realmente les guste la música clásica, sino porque creen que deben estar. Pues bien, lo mismo pasa en el cielo. Hay muchos que están sentados en la gloria, no porque sean felices, sino porque creen que su posición les obliga a estar en el cielo.

Hohe Bildung kann man dadurch beweisen, daß man die kompliziertesten Dinge auf einfache Art zu erläutern versteht.

Ves cosas y dices, ¿por qué? Pero yo sueño cosas que nunca fueron y digo, ¿por qué no?.

It is the people who hate poverty, not those who sympathize with it, who will put an end to it.

The problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

The greatest fallacy with communication, is the belief that it has actually occurred.

?i optimistul ?i pesimistul sunt utili societ??ii. Optimistul a inventat avionul, iar pesimistul para?uta.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it... and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The real slavery of to-day is slavery to ideals of virtue.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment … A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?

Early in the afternoon she placed Schumann's concerto in A minor on the desk of the pianoforte, arranged her seat before it, and left the room.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.

Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Å' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÅ'tt úrinÅ' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÅ'vel.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the environment. The unreasonable man adapts the environment to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Különben is: melyÅ'nk tud számot adni arról, hogy mit cselekszik? Ha számot adnánk, nem is cselekednénk.

As pessoas estão sempre culpando as circunstâncias pelo que elas são. Eu não acredito em circunstâncias. Os indivíduos que progridem neste mundo são aqueles que se mexem e procuram as circunstâncias que querem, e, se não conseguem encontrá-las, eles as criam.

PICKERING [in good-humored remonstrance] Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings? HIGGINS [looking critically at her] Oh no, I don't think so. Not any feelings that we need bother about. [Cheerily] Have you, Eliza? LIZA. I got my feelings same as anyone else.

The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.