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
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all… — 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
“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other… — 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
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
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are… — 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
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
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of… — 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
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
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — 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
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
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much… — 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
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 who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — 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
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised… — 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
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — 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
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and… — 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
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. — 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
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
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. — 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
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — 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