People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. — 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
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
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. — 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 Copy Share Image
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. — 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
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
“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
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
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
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
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
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
