George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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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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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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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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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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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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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.