Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.