Quote #15
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
More from George Bernard Shaw
- You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
- Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
- The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
- That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.