George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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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.
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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General consultant to mankind.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.