George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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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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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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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.
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
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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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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.