George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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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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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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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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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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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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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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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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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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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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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.