George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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 British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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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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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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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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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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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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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...