The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. — 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
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — 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
What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are… — 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
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the… — 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
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
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
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor… Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. — 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
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact. — 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
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead… — 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
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — 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
