Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor… Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share