George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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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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Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject...
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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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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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.
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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.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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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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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
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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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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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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...