George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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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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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
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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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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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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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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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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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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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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
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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.