Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...

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?

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

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.

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

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.