George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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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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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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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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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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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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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
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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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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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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.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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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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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.