George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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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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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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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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Syllables govern the world.
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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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'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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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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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.