Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
- George Bernard Shaw
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
- George Bernard Shaw
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
- George Bernard Shaw
O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?
- George Bernard Shaw
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness
- George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
- George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
- George Bernard Shaw
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
- George Bernard Shaw
No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.
- George Bernard Shaw