George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Blasphemy and sedition meaning the truth about Church and State.
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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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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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.
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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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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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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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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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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
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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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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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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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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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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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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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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.