Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Yüzümüzü görmek için aynaya, ruhumuzu görmek için sanat yap?t?na bakar?z.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find. them, make them

El gran secreto, Elisa, no consiste en tener buenos o malos modales o cualquier clase particular de modales, sino en tratar del mismo modo a todas las almas hermanas; en una palabra: hay que portarse como si uno estuviese en el cielo, donde no hay vagones de tercera ni reservados, y en donde un alma es tanto como la otra. ELISA

Let me advise you to study Greek, Mr Undershaft. Greek scholars are privileged men. Few of them know Greek; and none of them know anything else; but their position is unchallengeable. Other languages are the qualifications of waiters and commercial travellers: Greek is to a man of position what the hallmark is to silver.

Para todo problema complejo hay una solución simple y equivocada.

he examinado los maravillosos inventos del hombre; y le aseguro que en las artes de vivir no ha inventado nada, pero que en las artes de matar supera a la Naturaleza y produce con la química y la maquinaria todas las matanzas de las plagas, de la peste y del hambre.

Perhaps it was a presentiment that it might become a  part of our old Bridgenorth burden that made me warn our  Governments so earnestly that unless the law of marriage were  first made human, it could never become divine.

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

You never bother about their being only women: you talk to them just as you do to me or any other fellow. That's the secret of your success. You can't think how sick they get of being treated with the respect due to their sex.

She had learned from Jack, much to her surprise, that she could not make her face express anger or scorn by merely feeling angry or scornful.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.