From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the… — 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
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — 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
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance… — 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
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed… — 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