George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.
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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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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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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.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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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 dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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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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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.