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George
Bernard Shaw
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist, literary critic, a
socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century
theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter of women's rights and
an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money. |
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The
test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. |
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People are
always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world
are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if
they can't find them, make them. |
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We
have no more right to consume happiness
without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it. |
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Virtue
consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. |
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| The greatest of our evils
and the worst of our crimes is poverty. |
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Happiness and beauty are
by-products.
Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. |
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The
only way to avoid being miserable is
not to have enough leisure to
wonder whether you are happy or not. |
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Give
people health and a course to steer,
and they'll never stop to trouble about
whether they're happy or not. |
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The
reasonable people adapt themselves to the world;
the unreasonable ones persist in trying to adapt the world to
themselves. |
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The
person with a toothache thinks everyone happy
whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken person
makes the same mistake about the rich
person. |
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The
only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage
by
holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of
yourself. |
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A
day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less,
and the one who does
it needs a day's sustenance,
a night's repose and due leisure,
whether
he or she be a painter or a ploughman. |
