George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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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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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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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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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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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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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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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.
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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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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.
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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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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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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.