George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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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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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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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
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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 aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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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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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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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
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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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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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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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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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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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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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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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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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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.