George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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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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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
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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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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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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.
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Syllables govern the world.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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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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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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I want to be all used up when I die.