George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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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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I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons...
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.