George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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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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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 right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
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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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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
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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 prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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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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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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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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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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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 have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit...
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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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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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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your copyrights.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.