George Bernard Shaw

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

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.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.