George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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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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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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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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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 function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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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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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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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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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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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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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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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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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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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.