George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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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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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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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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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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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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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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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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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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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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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
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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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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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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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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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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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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.