George Bernard Shaw Quotes

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author’s equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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