Top 25 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw of 1348 - Page 41

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

George Bernard Shaw

Country, Honesty, Gun

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1455, e-artnow

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

George Bernard Shaw

Mean, Class, Organization

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

George Bernard Shaw

Real, Civilization, Recognition

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3772, e-artnow

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

George Bernard Shaw

Effectiveness, Style, Assertion

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

George Bernard Shaw

Torches, Splendid, Candle

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

George Bernard Shaw

Art, Ambition, World

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.497, e-artnow

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

George Bernard Shaw

West, Rebecca, Handle

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

George Bernard Shaw

Play, Sweat, Evil

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3211, e-artnow

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

George Bernard Shaw

Done, Lasts, Mud

George Bernard Shaw (1987). “Back to Methuselah”, p.443, Penguin UK

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

George Bernard Shaw

Running, Children, Home

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2873, e-artnow

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Love, Women, Constancy

The Philanderer act 2 (1893)

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

Home, Cages, Life Is

Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home"

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspiration, Two, Differences

"The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

George Bernard Shaw

Writing, Men, People

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

George Bernard Shaw

Communism, Form, Chaplains

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

George Bernard Shaw

Love Is, Moments, Appetite

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1701, e-artnow

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

George Bernard Shaw

God, Mistake, Cancer

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

George Bernard Shaw

Divinity, Made, Visible

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.311, e-artnow

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness, Time, Forgiving

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

George Bernard Shaw

Fall, Dogma, Trustworthy

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4444, e-artnow

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

George Bernard Shaw

Doctors, Tests, Treatment

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2413, e-artnow

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

George Bernard Shaw

Running, Men, Years

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2887, e-artnow

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Women, Motherhood

Why not give Christianity a trial?

George Bernard Shaw

Giving, Why Not, Trials

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3158, e-artnow