George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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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 am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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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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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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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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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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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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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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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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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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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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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.
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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.
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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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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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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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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.