“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible” — George Bernard Shaw Good man Copy Share Image
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. — George Bernard Shaw British Copy Share Image
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. — George Bernard Shaw Gentleman Copy Share Image
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. — George Bernard Shaw Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. — George Bernard Shaw Fool Copy Share Image
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw Ice Copy Share Image
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it… — George Bernard Shaw Ferocity Copy Share Image
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? — George Bernard Shaw Dream Copy Share Image
I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you… — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women,… — George Bernard Shaw Adventure Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one… — George Bernard Shaw Barbarism Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my… — George Bernard Shaw Life Copy Share Image
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. — George Bernard Shaw Education Copy Share Image
“You can’t rationally argue out what wasn’t rationally argued in.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Animal cruelty Copy Share Image
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid. — George Bernard Shaw Clever Copy Share Image
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand. — George Bernard Shaw Democracy Copy Share Image
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
