George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
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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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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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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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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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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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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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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.
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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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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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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.