George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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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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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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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Morality is not respectability.
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.