How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw Curiosity Copy Share Image
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. — George Bernard Shaw Clever Copy Share Image
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. — George Bernard Shaw Annihilation Copy Share Image
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. — George Bernard Shaw Christian Copy Share Image
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
“Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct… — George Bernard Shaw Acting Copy Share Image
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — George Bernard Shaw Bewildered Copy Share Image
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done… — George Bernard Shaw Bird Copy Share Image
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
“Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only… — 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
“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous… — George Bernard Shaw Christmas Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw America Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Angel Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Boast Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand. — George Bernard Shaw Ability Copy Share Image
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
