George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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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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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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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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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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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
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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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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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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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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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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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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.