George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.
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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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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 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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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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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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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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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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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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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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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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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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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.