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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
George Bernard Shaw -
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw -
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
George Bernard Shaw -
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!
George Bernard Shaw -
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
George Bernard Shaw
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw -
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw -
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.
George Bernard Shaw -
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw -
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw -
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
George Bernard Shaw
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
George Bernard Shaw -
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw -
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw -
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw