I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone… — George Bernard Shaw Better man Copy Share Image
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more… — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Time Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. — George Bernard Shaw Reformers Copy Share Image
“The man or woman who feels strong enough for two, seeks for every other quality in a partner than strength.” — George Bernard Shaw Strength Copy Share Image
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Abyss Copy Share Image
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the… — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." —… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:… — George Bernard Shaw Cameras Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Cities Copy Share Image
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that… — George Bernard Shaw Doctor Copy Share Image
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the… — George Bernard Shaw Death Copy Share Image
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep… — George Bernard Shaw Alliance Copy Share Image
“He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.” — George Bernard Shaw Bad fortune Copy Share Image
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness… — George Bernard Shaw France Copy Share Image
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. — George Bernard Shaw Accomplishment Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. — George Bernard Shaw Best nature Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct… — George Bernard Shaw Acting Copy Share Image
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop. — George Bernard Shaw Couple Copy Share Image
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it… — George Bernard Shaw Ferocity Copy Share Image
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? — George Bernard Shaw Dream Copy Share Image
