George Bernard Shaw

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing – to learn to live on earth as human beings.

George Bernard Shaw

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

George Bernard Shaw

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you’d better go and talk to yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw