George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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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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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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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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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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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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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.