George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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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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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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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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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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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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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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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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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
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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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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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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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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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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.