George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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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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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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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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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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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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The stock actor is a stage calamity...
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.