George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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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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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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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.