George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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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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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
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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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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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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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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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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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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 newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.