George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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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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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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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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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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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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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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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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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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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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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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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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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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man