George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.
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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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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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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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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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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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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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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 notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.