George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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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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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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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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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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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 ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
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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 way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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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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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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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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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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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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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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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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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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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.