I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Bird Copy Share Image
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation” — George Bernard Shaw Creation Copy Share Image
How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' . — George Bernard Shaw Fish Copy Share Image
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw Crime Copy Share Image
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom. — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep… — George Bernard Shaw Alliance Copy Share Image
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness… — George Bernard Shaw France Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone… — George Bernard Shaw Better man Copy Share Image
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Time Copy Share Image
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more… — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those… — George Bernard Shaw Better place Copy Share Image
Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
“Then the violet coffin moved again and went in feet first. And behold! The feet burst miraculously into streaming ribbons of garnet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being… — George Bernard Shaw Happiness Copy Share Image
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of… — George Bernard Shaw Life Copy Share Image
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On… — George Bernard Shaw Dreams Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in… — George Bernard Shaw Life Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Audience Copy Share Image
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. — George Bernard Shaw Bad intentions Copy Share Image
“I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.” — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
“When you go to women,” says Nietzsche, “take your whip with you.” — George Bernard Shaw Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are two things necessary to Salvation… Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else. — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
