George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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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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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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Syllables govern the world.
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When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
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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 like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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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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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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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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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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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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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.