5 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Sacrifice

George Bernard Shaw quotes on sacrifice

13. Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

27. Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

63. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

64. Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad-boy husband. But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a bloodsucker, a hypocrite and a cheat. Perish the race and wither a thousand women if only the sacrifice of them enable him to act Hamlet better, to paint a finer picture, to write a deeper poem, a greater play, a profounder philosophy!

126. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.