George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.

Hell, they says, is paved with good intentions.

I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?

Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.

Hidup bukanlah tentang menemukan diri sendiri. Hidup adalah tentang menciptakan diri sendiri

The real slavery of to-day is slavery to ideals of virtue.

In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (attributed by George Melly in 1962, see .

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.