George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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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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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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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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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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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!