George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

George Bernard Shaw

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

George Bernard Shaw

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

George Bernard Shaw

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

George Bernard Shaw

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

George Bernard Shaw

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one’s uncles.

George Bernard Shaw