George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Morality is not respectability.
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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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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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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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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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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
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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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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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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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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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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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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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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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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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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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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.