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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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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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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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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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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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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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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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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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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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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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 all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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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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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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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!