George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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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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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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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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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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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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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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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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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
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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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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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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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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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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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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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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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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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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.