George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

George Bernard Shaw

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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 tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

George Bernard Shaw

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

George Bernard Shaw

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

George Bernard Shaw

Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children – and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

George Bernard Shaw