George Bernard Shaw Quotes
-
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
-
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-
Fear is choosing the safe course...
-
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.
-
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...
-
I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
-
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
-
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
-
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.
-
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
-
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
-
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
-
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
-
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.
-
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
-
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.
-
Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
-
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
-
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
-
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.