George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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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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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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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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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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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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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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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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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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.