George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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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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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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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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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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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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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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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.