George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
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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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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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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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My reputation grows with every failure.
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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
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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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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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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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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 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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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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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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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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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.