George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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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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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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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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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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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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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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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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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
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An index is a great leveller.
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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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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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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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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.