George Bernard Shaw Quotes

"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"

"Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation."

"I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor."

"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

"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."

"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."

"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."

"Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's"

"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

"Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation."

"Common people do not pray; they only beg."

"All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions."

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."