George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

The American Constitution is not really a constitution but a Charter of Anarchism… It was a guarantee to the whole American nation that it never should be governed at all.

Decency is indecency’s conspiracy of silence.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still – must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

Woman’s dearest delight is to wound Man’s self-conceit, though Man’s dearest delight is to gratify hers.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

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