George Bernard Shaw Quotations | Page 2

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt