George Bernard Shaw

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is…

— George Bernard Shaw

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

— George Bernard Shaw

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before…

— George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

— George Bernard Shaw

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury…

— George Bernard Shaw

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

— George Bernard Shaw

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings…

— George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere, somewhere in time's own space, there must be some sweet pastured place. Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow, some…

— George Bernard Shaw

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but…

— George Bernard Shaw

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Oh, it’s a fine life, the life of the gutter. It’s real: it’s warm: it’s violent: you can feel it through the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not”

— George Bernard Shaw

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam

— George Bernard Shaw

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

— George Bernard Shaw

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

— George Bernard Shaw

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin…

— George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

— George Bernard Shaw

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised…

— George Bernard Shaw

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case…

— George Bernard Shaw

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

— George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

— George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

— George Bernard Shaw

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

— George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

— George Bernard Shaw

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

— George Bernard Shaw

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world…

— George Bernard Shaw