George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
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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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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.