George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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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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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
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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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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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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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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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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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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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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.