George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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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 problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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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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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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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.