Quotes
Quotes - Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.
Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
Gin was mother's milk to her.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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.
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
