George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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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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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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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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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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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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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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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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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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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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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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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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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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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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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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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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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.