The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they… — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is… — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw 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 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 Copy Share Image
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle… — 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