The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. — George Bernard Shaw Money Copy Share Image
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves. — George Bernard Shaw Community Copy Share Image
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.” — George Bernard Shaw Great things Copy Share Image
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. — George Bernard Shaw Fashion Copy Share Image
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it. — George Bernard Shaw Faces Copy Share Image
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of… — George Bernard Shaw Affection Copy Share Image
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing — George Bernard Shaw Doing nothing Copy Share Image
“Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.” — George Bernard Shaw Dream Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious,… — George Bernard Shaw Boys Copy Share Image
Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without… — George Bernard Shaw Atoms Copy Share Image
I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will;… — George Bernard Shaw Flower Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Atheism Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and… — George Bernard Shaw Adults Copy Share Image
It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All… — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in… — George Bernard Shaw Life Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Audience Copy Share Image
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous… — George Bernard Shaw Christmas Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is… — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
“BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion, Mr Keegan. KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this… — George Bernard Shaw Becoming better Copy Share Image