George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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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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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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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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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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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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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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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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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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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got 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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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.