George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Joy Quotes, Purpose Quotes

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Joy Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Theatre Quotes

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Money Quotes , Roots Quotes

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Hands Quotes

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Success Quotes

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Law Quotes , Judging Quotes

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Photography Quotes , Maturity Quotes

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Husband Quotes , Angel Quotes

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Novel Quotes , Clear Quotes

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Army Quotes , Italian Quotes

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Making Money Quotes

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Courage Quotes , People Quotes

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Soul Quotes , Atheism Quotes

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Real Quotes , Expression Quotes

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Passion Quotes , Men Quotes

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Ambition Quotes

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Husband Quotes , Passion Quotes

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Moon Quotes , Men Quotes