George Bernard Shaw Rage Quotations

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.