George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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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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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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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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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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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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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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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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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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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.