George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that...
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
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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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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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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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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
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The medical profession is a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... Until there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.