George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald’s movement is that it is not quite British enough.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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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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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.