George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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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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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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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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Syllables govern the world.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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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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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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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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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.