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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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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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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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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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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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
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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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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...