George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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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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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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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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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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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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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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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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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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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!