George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
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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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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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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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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.