George Bernard Shaw Sons Quotations

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

Whilst we have prisons it matters little who occupies the cells.

I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.