George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
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It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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Better never than late.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.