Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
"A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."