George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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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 hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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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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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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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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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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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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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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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.