George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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 most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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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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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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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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There is only one universal passion fear.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
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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.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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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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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.