The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. — George Bernard Shaw Dance Copy Share Image
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often. — George Bernard Shaw Belief Copy Share Image
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. — George Bernard Shaw Burglar Copy Share Image
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. — George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Copy Share Image
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. — George Bernard Shaw Clever Copy Share Image
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. — George Bernard Shaw Class Copy Share Image
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw Motivational Copy Share Image
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw Comedy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Faith Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. — George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Copy Share Image
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth… — George Bernard Shaw Asylums Copy Share Image
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Civilization Copy Share Image
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Books 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
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in… — George Bernard Shaw Apostles Copy Share Image
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned… — George Bernard Shaw Friendship Copy Share Image
“In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I explained the predicament of our contemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively… — George Bernard Shaw Don juan Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — George Bernard Shaw Adventurer Copy Share Image
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an… — George Bernard Shaw Bully Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
“In one conspicuous case, that of royalty, the State does already select the parents on purely political grounds; and in the peerage,… — George Bernard Shaw Parenting Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Attention Copy Share Image
“Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money… — George Bernard Shaw Gentleman Copy Share Image
Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. — George Bernard Shaw Fear Copy Share Image
We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet. — George Bernard Shaw Evil Copy Share Image
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. — George Bernard Shaw Audacious Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used. — George Bernard Shaw Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw Abstaining Copy Share Image
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
