George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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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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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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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.
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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
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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 fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states...
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
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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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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.