What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?' — 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
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — 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
