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
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George Bernard Shaw Ability Copy Share Image
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw Experiment Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value.They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who wantsomething for nothing… — George Bernard Shaw Christianity Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!” — George Bernard Shaw Criticism Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Capital punishment Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Aptitude Copy Share Image
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
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
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
“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
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but… — George Bernard Shaw Business 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