George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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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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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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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 thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.