Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Truth Quotes

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he...

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he...

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify...

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one...

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one...

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not...

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

If you judge me you don't have time to love me.

If you judge me you don't have time to love me.