Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — 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
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting. — 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
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — 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
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
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like… — 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
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one… — 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
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing — 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
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,… — 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
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
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once… — 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
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
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married. — 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
