George Bernard Shaw Quotes

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

En todos los conciertos clásicos que se dan en Inglaterra verás filas de gente cansada que están allí, no porque realmente les guste la música clásica, sino porque creen que deben estar. Pues bien, lo mismo pasa en el cielo. Hay muchos que están sentados en la gloria, no porque sean felices, sino porque creen que su posición les obliga a estar en el cielo.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.

What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

Hitler is a very remarkable man, a very able man... What Hitler should have done was not to drive the Jews out, what he ought to have said was, 'I will tolerate the Jews to any extent on condition that no Jew marries a Jewess, on condition that he marries a German.'

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.