George Bernard Shaw

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.