New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
George Bernard ShawTreat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
George Bernard ShawYou know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
George Bernard ShawEverybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
George Bernard ShawYou are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
George Bernard Shaw