George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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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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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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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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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.