George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. ”

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it. ”

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

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? ”

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ”

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ”

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. ”

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

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

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. ”