George Bernard Shaw

You don’t get tired of muffins, but you don’t find inspiration in them.

George Bernard Shaw

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

George Bernard Shaw

You know well I couldn’t bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it’s wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

George Bernard Shaw

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

George Bernard Shaw

You see, we’re all savages, more or less. We’re supposed to be civilized and cultured-to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

George Bernard Shaw

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

George Bernard Shaw

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

George Bernard Shaw