George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
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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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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 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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I want to be all used up when I die.
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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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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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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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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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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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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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.