George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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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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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 one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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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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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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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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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
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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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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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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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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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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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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 theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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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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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.