George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives...
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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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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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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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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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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of 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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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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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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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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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.