George Bernard Shaw Quotes — Page 27

Playwright, Critic

Wise

“What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.”

Self Quality Self Control

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

Soul Heaven Pygmalion

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Curious

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.”

Self Class

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Philosophical

“At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.”

World Religion

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Funny

“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.”

Long Piano Teeth

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Philosophical

“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.”

Important Together Sex

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Funny

“As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.”

People Long Drama

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Lonely

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”

World Lonely Poetry

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Funny

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”

Life Stupid Clever

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Wise

“Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.”

Believe Important Heaven

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Courageous

“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”

Men Want Likes

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Philosophical

“The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.”

Men Blood Vortex

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