George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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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!
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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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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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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General consultant to mankind.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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A great social reformer.
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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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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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.