George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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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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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
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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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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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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 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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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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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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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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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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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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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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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.