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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making yo»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, clod, complaining, devote, feverish, Force of Nature, grievance, grievances, mighty, recognized, selfish
«If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat»
«My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
levity, method, Right Thing, Say It, utmost
«Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
babyhood, lots, motherhood, perpetual
«Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
intentions, not bad, pave, paved, paving
«You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
human race, knock, knocked out, knock on, knock out, knock up, patriotism, quiet, race, till
«I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.»
«The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
cricket, crickets, English, English people, invented, the English
«That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
account, disadvantage, disadvantaged, enemy, equal, fight, fighting, secret, successful, take account, take into account, terms
«Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.»
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