Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?' — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — 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
Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American… — 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
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. — 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
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in… — 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
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are.… — 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
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — 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
