I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self. George Bernard Shaw elderly self young If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority. George Bernard Shaw demand authority believe If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. George Bernard Shaw ambition world art Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely. George Bernard Shaw rebecca handle west The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm. George Bernard Shaw neighbor home thinking To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better. George Bernard Shaw sweat evil play We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud. George Bernard Shaw mud lasts done The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. George Bernard Shaw teach church humility Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. George Bernard Shaw sister curiosity dying Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. George Bernard Shaw pain heart death Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. George Bernard Shaw boredom laughter morning Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. George Bernard Shaw law wish firsts A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. George Bernard Shaw lectures naps sleep I work as my father drank. George Bernard Shaw drank father Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment. George Bernard Shaw army fighting war That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. George Bernard Shaw fighting successful secret Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. George Bernard Shaw trade literature writing You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. George Bernard Shaw letters writing men When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. George Bernard Shaw patents men sex Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? George Bernard Shaw economics ifs
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