George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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Morality is not respectability.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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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.
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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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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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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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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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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
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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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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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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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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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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
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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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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.