George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”

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

“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will.”

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

“The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.”

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”

“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.”

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

“HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on Freddy.LIZA. You think I like you to say that. But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I can't have kindness, I'll have independence.HIGGINS. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.LIZA [rising determinedly] I'll let you see whether I'm dependent on you. If you can preach, I can teach. I'll go and be a teacher.HIGGINS. What'll you teach, in heaven's name?LIZA. What you taught me. I'll teach phonetics.HIGGINS. Ha! Ha! Ha!”

“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...”

“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.”