George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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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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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
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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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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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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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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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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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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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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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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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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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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.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
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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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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...