George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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.
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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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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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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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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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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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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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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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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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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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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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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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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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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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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.