George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice...
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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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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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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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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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
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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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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.