George Bernard Shaw

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order and morals.

George Bernard Shaw

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

George Bernard Shaw

When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.

George Bernard Shaw

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

George Bernard Shaw

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

George Bernard Shaw