I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Intelligence Quotes

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is...

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is...

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave...

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power,...

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power,...

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.