George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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All progress means war with Society.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. That is my last word. Think over it.
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.