George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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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 a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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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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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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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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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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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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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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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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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.