George Bernard Shaw Quotes

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

An index is a great leveller.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

All Artists are Anarchists.

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.