“Bridegroom! What a word! It makes a man realize his position, somehow.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new. — George Bernard Shaw Divorce Copy Share Image
We dont stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. — George Bernard Shaw Clothes Copy Share Image
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy. — George Bernard Shaw Enemy Copy Share Image
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. — George Bernard Shaw Degradation Copy Share Image
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself… — George Bernard Shaw Atheism Copy Share Image
The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which… — George Bernard Shaw Courage Copy Share Image
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to… — George Bernard Shaw Covent garden Copy Share Image
Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally… — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best,… — George Bernard Shaw Death Copy Share Image
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of… — George Bernard Shaw Action Copy Share Image
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Affair Copy Share Image
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a… — George Bernard Shaw Good character Copy Share Image
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege… — George Bernard Shaw Community Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Angel Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Boast Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw America Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
“I could do without my warhorse; I could drag about in a skirt; I could let the banners and the trumpets and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw Gratitude Copy Share Image
I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. — George Bernard Shaw Alcohol Copy Share Image
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. — George Bernard Shaw Adventure and life Copy Share Image