8 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Critique

George Bernard Shaw quotes on critique

5. We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

16. To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.

86. What is his religion? An excuse for hating ME. What is his law? An excuse for hanging YOU. What is his morality? Gentility! an excuse for consuming without producing. What is his art? An excuse for gloating over pictures of slaughter. What are his politics? Either the worship of a despot because a despot can kill, or parliamentary cockfighting.

114. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

149. When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

198. Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.[3]

225. Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.[1]

234. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.