George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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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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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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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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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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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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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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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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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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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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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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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 find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.