George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.

You see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things as they never were and ask, ‘Why not?’

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Even the handful of mentally competent critics got into difficulties over my demonstration of the economic deadlock in which the Salvation Army finds itself. Some of them thought that the Army would not have taken money from a distiller and a cannon founder: others thought it should not have taken it: all assumed more or […]