George Bernard Shaw Quotes
-
Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
-
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
-
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
-
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
-
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
-
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
-
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
-
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
-
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.
-
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
-
Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
-
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
-
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
-
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
-
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
-
You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
-
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
-
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
-
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
-
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
-
You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
-
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
-
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
-
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.