George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff indicating her body, this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.