George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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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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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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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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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.