George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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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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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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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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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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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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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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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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As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald’s movement is that it is not quite British enough.
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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
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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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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.