What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. — George Bernard Shaw Creativity Copy Share Image
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything. — George Bernard Shaw Cooking Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Greatness Copy Share Image
You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!” — George Bernard Shaw Cruelty Copy Share Image
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. — George Bernard Shaw Ignorance Copy Share Image
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw Barristers Copy Share Image
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw Cynicism Copy Share Image
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw Change Copy Share Image
If everybody minded their own business, said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a good deal faster… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for… — George Bernard Shaw Bribery Copy Share Image
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for… — George Bernard Shaw Generations Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of… — George Bernard Shaw Conscience Copy Share Image
I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to… — George Bernard Shaw Affair Copy Share Image
During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative… — George Bernard Shaw Amendments Copy Share Image
“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a… — George Bernard Shaw Anti-vaccine Copy Share Image
“[T]he most elaborate code of [law]... would still have left unspecified a hundred ways in which wreckers of Communism could have sidetracked… — George Bernard Shaw Communism Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of… — George Bernard Shaw Brain Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
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