George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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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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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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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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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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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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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.
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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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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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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.