George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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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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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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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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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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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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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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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.