George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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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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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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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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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.