George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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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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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
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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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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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A great social reformer.
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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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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum...
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
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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 poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.