George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers...
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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Better never than late.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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All progress means war with Society.
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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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'We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.'
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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
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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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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.