A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

— George Bernard Shaw

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live, including our legal ways of distributing income and allowing people to own things, are natural, like the weather. They are not. Because they exist everywhere in our little world, we take it for granted that they have always existed and must always exist, and that they are self-acting. That is a dangerous mistake. They are in fact transient makeshifts; and many of them would not be obeyed, even by well-meaning people, if there were not a policeman within call and a prison within reach. They are being changed continually by Parliament, because we are never satisfied with them.... At the elections some candidates get votes by promising to make new laws or to get rid of old ones, and others by promising to keep things just as they are. This is impossible. Things will not stay as they are. Changes that nobody ever believed possible take place in a few generations. Children nowadays think that spending nine years in school, old age and widows’ pensions, votes for women, and short-skirted ladies in Parliament or pleading in barristers’ wigs in the courts are part of the order of Nature, and always were and ever shall be; but their great-grandmothers would have set down anyone who told them that such things were coming as mad, and anyone who wanted them to come as wicked.

— George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

— George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

— George Bernard Shaw

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

— George Bernard Shaw

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

— George Bernard Shaw

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...

— George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

— George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

— George Bernard Shaw