George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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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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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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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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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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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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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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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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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
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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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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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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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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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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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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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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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Fear is choosing the safe course...