George Bernard Shaw

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.”

“If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your li...”

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the bli...”

“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”

“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.”

“The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”

“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”

“Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”