George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

Hail, Sphinx: salutation from Julius Caesar! I have wandered in many lands, seeking the lost regions from which my birth into this world exiled me, and the company of creatures such as I myself. I have found flocks and pastures, men and …

You're not a man, you're a machine.

Oh, you are a very poor soldier — a chocolate cream soldier!

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.

I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently …

When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and …

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.