George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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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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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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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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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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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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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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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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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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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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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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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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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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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.