George Bernard Shaw

Quotes

  1. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

  2. I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!

  3. You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

  4. I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

  5. I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.

  6. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.

  7. He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!

  8. I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

  9. I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.

  10. "We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."

  11. I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

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