What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. — George Bernard Shaw Elders Copy Share Image
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — George Bernard Shaw Joy Copy Share Image
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other… — George Bernard Shaw Advantage Copy Share Image
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw Emotional Copy Share Image
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.… — George Bernard Shaw Friendship Copy Share Image
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the… — George Bernard Shaw Giving Copy Share Image
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
“A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that… — George Bernard Shaw Communication Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We… — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,… — George Bernard Shaw Anarchy 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
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any… — George Bernard Shaw Creation Copy Share Image
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her — George Bernard Shaw Psychology 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
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? — George Bernard Shaw Earth Copy Share Image
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted. — George Bernard Shaw Changeable Copy Share Image
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. — George Bernard Shaw Choice Copy Share Image
“The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.” — George Bernard Shaw Exterminate Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Folly Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. — George Bernard Shaw Affection Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Communication Copy Share Image
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw Biggest problem Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image