George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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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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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.