George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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General consultant to mankind.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.