George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum...
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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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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons...
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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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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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I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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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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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'
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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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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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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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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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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.