George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
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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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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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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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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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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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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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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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An index is a great leveller.
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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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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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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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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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Brains are not everything.
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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 ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.