George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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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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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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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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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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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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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
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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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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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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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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.