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 on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. George Bernard Shaw gentleman greek men 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. George Bernard Shaw air two years To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible. George Bernard Shaw covenant salt bread A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid. George Bernard Shaw anachronism soldier Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. George Bernard Shaw biblical prove temptation What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist. George Bernard Shaw tomorrow remember today A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats. George Bernard Shaw cat vegetables vegetarianism Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw dies All Artists are Anarchists. George Bernard Shaw anarchist artist People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. George Bernard Shaw boredom tired people I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself. George Bernard Shaw practice would-be people It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman. George Bernard Shaw ridiculous morality art If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. George Bernard Shaw standards painting people The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. George Bernard Shaw abandoned moral sex How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' . George Bernard Shaw spells fishes ought If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. George Bernard Shaw investing government order An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress. George Bernard Shaw actresses actors The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators. George Bernard Shaw party beautiful beauty The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient. George Bernard Shaw erring jobs men Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since. George Bernard Shaw doctrine heaven jesus
