George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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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 can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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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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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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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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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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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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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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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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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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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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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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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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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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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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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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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.