George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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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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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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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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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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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 ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
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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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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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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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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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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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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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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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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.