George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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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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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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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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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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Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.
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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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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.