George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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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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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states...
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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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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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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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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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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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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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.