George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
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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 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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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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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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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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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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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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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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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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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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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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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
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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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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.