George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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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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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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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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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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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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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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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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If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.