George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.