A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth — George Bernard Shaw Happiness Copy Share Image
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. — George Bernard Shaw Advantage Copy Share Image
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now — George Bernard Shaw Environmental Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Autobiographies Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Appreciation Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Consideration Copy Share Image
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.” — George Bernard Shaw Born free Copy Share Image
“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is… — George Bernard Shaw Advantage Copy Share Image
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. — George Bernard Shaw Eating Copy Share Image
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the… — George Bernard Shaw Antisemitism Copy Share Image
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — George Bernard Shaw Belief Copy Share Image
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has… — George Bernard Shaw Cooking Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Authority Copy Share Image
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination. — George Bernard Shaw Assassination Copy Share Image
“A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The best way to get your point across is to entertain. — George Bernard Shaw Best way Copy Share Image
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. — George Bernard Shaw Anarchism Copy Share Image
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
