George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject...
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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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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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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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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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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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Syllables govern the world.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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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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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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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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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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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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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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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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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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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.