Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
- George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
- George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
- George Bernard Shaw
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
- George Bernard Shaw
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
- George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.
- George Bernard Shaw
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
- George Bernard Shaw
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
- George Bernard Shaw
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
- George Bernard Shaw