George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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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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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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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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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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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 any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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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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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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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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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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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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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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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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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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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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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.