George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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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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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.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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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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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.