George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.