George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from George Bernard Shaw on Wise Famous Quotes.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.
You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing ... It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
The world will forgive you for the sake of your blazing boyishness. (Written to Lord Alfred Douglas)