George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Brains are not everything.
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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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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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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
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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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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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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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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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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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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?
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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 English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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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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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...