Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have… — 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
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — 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 Copy Share Image
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — 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
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. — 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
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — 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
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will. — 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
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on… — 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