Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same. — George Bernard Shaw Funny Copy Share Image
“The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.” — George Bernard Shaw Communication Copy Share Image
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted? — George Bernard Shaw Fear Copy Share Image
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once… — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that. — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw Babyhood Copy Share Image
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men. — George Bernard Shaw Feminism Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. — George Bernard Shaw Children 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 is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Benches Copy Share Image
If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities… — George Bernard Shaw Authority Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Castes 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 Actors Copy Share Image
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent… — George Bernard Shaw Assumption Copy Share Image
“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must… — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank… — George Bernard Shaw Abstention Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Accuracy Copy Share Image
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.” — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. — George Bernard Shaw Convalescence Copy Share Image
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image