George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.
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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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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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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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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt...
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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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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.