There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — 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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — 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 Copy Share Image
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. — 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
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — 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
