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
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of… — 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 all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have… — 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
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of. No, Eliza: do… — 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
