George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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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 have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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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.
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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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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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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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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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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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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.