George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
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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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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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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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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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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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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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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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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.