George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
