George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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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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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend 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 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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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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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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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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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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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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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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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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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.