George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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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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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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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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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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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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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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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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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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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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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 test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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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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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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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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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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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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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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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.