George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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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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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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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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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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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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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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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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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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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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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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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.