George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Write your Sad times in Sand,_x000D_ _x000D_ Write your Good times in Stone.