George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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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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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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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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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.