George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.