George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
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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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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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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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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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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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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.