George Bernard Shaw

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.”

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”

“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.”

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”