Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
- George Bernard Shaw
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
- George Bernard Shaw
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
- George Bernard Shaw
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
- George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
- George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
- George Bernard Shaw
The sincerest love is the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- George Bernard Shaw
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw