George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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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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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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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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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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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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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.