George Bernard Shaw
143 quotations
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.