George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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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 claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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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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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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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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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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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.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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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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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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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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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.