George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald’s movement is that it is not quite British enough.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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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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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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This souls' prison we call England.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice...
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Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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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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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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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.