George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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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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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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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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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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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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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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Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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General consultant to mankind.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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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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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.