Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw Attitude Copy Share Image
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw Ice Copy Share Image
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw Friend Copy Share Image
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Effort Copy Share Image
“Ive taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best looking women in the world. I’m seasoned. They might as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Book banning Copy Share Image
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. — George Bernard Shaw Christianity Copy Share Image
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw Funny Copy Share Image
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their… — George Bernard Shaw Asylums Copy Share Image
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw Belief Copy Share Image
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. — George Bernard Shaw Birth Copy Share Image
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that. — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men. — George Bernard Shaw Feminism Copy Share Image
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw Babyhood Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. — George Bernard Shaw Atheism Copy Share Image
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once… — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no… — George Bernard Shaw Child Copy Share Image
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Bourgeois Copy Share Image
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth… — George Bernard Shaw Asylums Copy Share Image