Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them — 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
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them… — 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
