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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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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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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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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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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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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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.