Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. — George Bernard Shaw Earnestly Copy Share Image
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik. — George Bernard Shaw Earth Copy Share Image
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — George Bernard Shaw Alcohol Copy Share Image
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw Friend Copy Share Image
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Book banning Copy Share Image
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get… — George Bernard Shaw Brutal Copy Share Image
“I have always made you my companions and friends, and allowed you perfect freedom to do and say whatever you liked, so… — George Bernard Shaw Freedom Copy Share Image
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don—t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his… — George Bernard Shaw Brass Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been… — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw Bible Copy Share Image
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg — George Bernard Shaw Common people Copy Share Image
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw Agnostic Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. — George Bernard Shaw Hell Copy Share Image
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid. — George Bernard Shaw Anachronism Copy Share Image
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. — George Bernard Shaw Belief Copy Share Image