George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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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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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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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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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.