George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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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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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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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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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.