George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.