George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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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 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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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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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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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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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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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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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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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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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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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.