George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt...
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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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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Blasphemy and sedition meaning the truth about Church and State.
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
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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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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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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
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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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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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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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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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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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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.