George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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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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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
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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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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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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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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.