George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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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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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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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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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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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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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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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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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.
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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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It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.
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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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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.