George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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!
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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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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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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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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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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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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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.
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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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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
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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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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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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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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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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.