George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

— George Bernard Shaw

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools…

— George Bernard Shaw

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are…

— George Bernard Shaw

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

— George Bernard Shaw

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw

“the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

— George Bernard Shaw

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!…

— George Bernard Shaw

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only…

— George Bernard Shaw

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of…

— George Bernard Shaw

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university…

— George Bernard Shaw

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when…

— George Bernard Shaw

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit…

— George Bernard Shaw

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but…

— George Bernard Shaw

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a…

— George Bernard Shaw

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

— George Bernard Shaw

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

— George Bernard Shaw

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

— George Bernard Shaw

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

— George Bernard Shaw

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

— George Bernard Shaw

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

— George Bernard Shaw

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

— George Bernard Shaw

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

— George Bernard Shaw

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

— George Bernard Shaw

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

— George Bernard Shaw

“When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish…

— George Bernard Shaw

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

— George Bernard Shaw