George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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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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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction.
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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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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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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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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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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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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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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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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.