George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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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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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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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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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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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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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.