What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time. George Bernard Shaw vegetariandiseasefood The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation. George Bernard Shaw endurerelationsex Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws. George Bernard Shaw believecountrychildren We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now George Bernard Shaw jehovahenvironmentalworld I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten. George Bernard Shaw dreamretirementhappiness One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. George Bernard Shaw wiseinspirationalmen What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. George Bernard Shaw baseballmothergames If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat George Bernard Shaw rebelshoessmart People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. George Bernard Shaw stay-strongperseverancelonely Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict. George Bernard Shaw recordsvisiondrug The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one. George Bernard Shaw mencountryart We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. George Bernard Shaw vegetarian-dietfightingwar What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. George Bernard Shaw realteachingeducation A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. George Bernard Shaw winemindfood Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. George Bernard Shaw pursuitfollyhappiness Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw changetimefunny To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ. George Bernard Shaw teachinggodlying The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights George Bernard Shaw hundredbearsworld A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. George Bernard Shaw blockelephantslooks Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw marriageanniversaryfunny
