The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Works
Books and titles linked to this author
Advice to a Young Critic
Androcles and the Lion
Authors on Film
Back to Methuselah
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Dramatic opinions and essays
Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 2
Fanny's First Play
Getting Married
Heartbreak House
Immaturity
John Bull's Other Island
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Misalliance
Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Music in London
My Fair Lady
Overruled
Pygmalion
Pygmalion and Related Readings
Saint Joan
The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Irrational Knot
The Philanderer
The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Quotes
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Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
Morality is not respectability.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.