Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

I want to be all used up when I die.

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

There is no magic in marriage. If there were, married couples would never desire to seperate. But they do.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.

Abnormal professions attract two classes: those who are not good enough for ordinary bourgeois life and those who are too good for it. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior.

One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

If you want soldiers you must have children. You can't buy 'em in boxes, like toy soldiers.

I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.