George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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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 prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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Your heart and your mouth will be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
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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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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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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.