George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.