George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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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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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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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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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read 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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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.