Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Tag: George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.