This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I… — George Bernard Shaw Baby Copy Share Image
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. — George Bernard Shaw Ethics Copy Share Image
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Genius Copy Share Image
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Capital punishment Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Aptitude Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by… — George Bernard Shaw Duty Copy Share Image
If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder… — George Bernard Shaw Ancient Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to… — George Bernard Shaw Government Copy Share Image
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another. — George Bernard Shaw Desire Copy Share Image
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them. — George Bernard Shaw Human beings Copy Share Image
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Common sense Copy Share Image
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. — George Bernard Shaw Dream Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw Friend Copy Share Image
“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...” — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact. — George Bernard Shaw Facts Copy Share Image
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw Ancient greek Copy Share Image
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous… — George Bernard Shaw Battle Copy Share Image
You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community — George Bernard Shaw Child Copy Share Image
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Bushmen Copy Share Image
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. — George Bernard Shaw Ferocity Copy Share Image
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,… — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw Agnostic Copy Share Image
