Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. George Bernard Shaw chiefs player wind My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. George Bernard Shaw dirt soul children Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it. George Bernard Shaw divinity visible made The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. George Bernard Shaw ignorant meat believe Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated. George Bernard Shaw coward hate revenge The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools. George Bernard Shaw home running children An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often. George Bernard Shaw can-not believe ideas He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. George Bernard Shaw A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. George Bernard Shaw All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. George Bernard Shaw Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. George Bernard Shaw If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. George Bernard Shaw My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. George Bernard Shaw Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not' George Bernard Shaw
