George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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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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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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Brains are not everything.
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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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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
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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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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
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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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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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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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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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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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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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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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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.