George Bernard Shaw

“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”

“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”

“Better never than late.”

“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”

“The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.”

“The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.”

“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”

“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”

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

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.”

“Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.”

“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”

“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”

“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”

“Property is organized robbery.”

“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.”