George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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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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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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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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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.
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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.