George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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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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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
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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 like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
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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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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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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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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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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.