Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw kwanzaacommunityclass People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. George Bernard Shaw stressworrypeople The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. George Bernard Shaw tiredsecretmean The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. George Bernard Shaw geniushonormen No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does George Bernard Shaw trustnaturemen All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw atheisttruthreligious When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. George Bernard Shaw madcrazyacceptance The 100% American is 99% idiot. George Bernard Shaw idiotsarcasmsarcastic The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. George Bernard Shaw pygmaliongood-mansoul My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw public-speakingtroublewise Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw imperfectionsilencemen The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. George Bernard Shaw familylovelife In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific. George Bernard Shaw givingsciencebelieve Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. George Bernard Shaw womenchildrenthinking Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. George Bernard Shaw mankindperfectbook Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. George Bernard Shaw givingmeanpeople Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it... George Bernard Shaw cynicalbeliefpower Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw familycountrychildren Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood. George Bernard Shaw degradationcitiescountry Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw spiritualmotivationalart
