Top 232 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.