George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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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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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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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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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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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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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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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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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.