George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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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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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
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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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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
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I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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Syllables govern the world.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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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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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.