George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.