Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — 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. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw 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 a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image