A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — George Bernard Shaw Community Copy Share Image
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely… — George Bernard Shaw Fool Copy Share Image
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw Funny Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was” — George Bernard Shaw Don juan Copy Share Image
We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without… — George Bernard Shaw Abel Copy Share Image
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the… — George Bernard Shaw Man Copy Share Image
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. — George Bernard Shaw Belief Copy Share Image
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth… — George Bernard Shaw Beautiful Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. — George Bernard Shaw Chloroform Copy Share Image
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw Chastity Copy Share Image
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what… — George Bernard Shaw Creation Copy Share Image
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of… — George Bernard Shaw Bears Copy Share Image
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help… — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally… — George Bernard Shaw Blasphemy Copy Share Image
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
