George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
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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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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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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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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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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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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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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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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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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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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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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.