George Bernard Shaw

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

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.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

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

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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

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

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

General consultant to mankind.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.