George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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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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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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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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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?
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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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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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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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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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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.