George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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A great social reformer.
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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 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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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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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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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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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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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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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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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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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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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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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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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.