George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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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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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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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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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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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
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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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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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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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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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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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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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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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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.