George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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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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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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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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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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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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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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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits 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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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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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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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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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
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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 is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.