George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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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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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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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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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.