George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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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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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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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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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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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 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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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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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 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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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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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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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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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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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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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 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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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.