George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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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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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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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.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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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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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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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.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.