George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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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 frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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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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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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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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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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A great social reformer.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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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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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
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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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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
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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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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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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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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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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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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.