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
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
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St… — George Bernard Shaw Battle 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
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to… — 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
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw 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
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on… — George Bernard Shaw Gods will Copy Share Image
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them… — George Bernard Shaw Acting 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
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw Motivational Copy Share Image
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw Comedy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Faith Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. — George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Art 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
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
