George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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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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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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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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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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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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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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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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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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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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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.