George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
