George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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A 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.
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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.