George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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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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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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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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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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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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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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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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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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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
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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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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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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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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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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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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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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.