George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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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 great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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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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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.