George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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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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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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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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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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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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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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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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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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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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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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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.