George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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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.
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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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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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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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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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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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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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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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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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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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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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.