George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
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Well, I tell you again to get rid of your Constitution. But I suppose you won't do it. You have a good president and you have a bad Constitution, and the bad Constitution gets the better of the good President all the time. The end of it will be is that you might as well have an English Prime Minister.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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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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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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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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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do...
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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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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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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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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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
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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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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!