George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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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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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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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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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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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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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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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 domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do...
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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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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.