George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
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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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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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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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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 open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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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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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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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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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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Never repeat old grievances.
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.