George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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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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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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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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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.