George Bernard Shaw ( 10 of 199 )
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you read more
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as
an educated gentlemen.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as
an educated gentlemen.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good read more
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll
be happy; if not, you'll read more
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll
be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and
brought up in its air is Irish. read more
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and
brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in
Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first
and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
