George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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 poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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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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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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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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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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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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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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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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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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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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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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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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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 test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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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.