A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. — 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
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in… — 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
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — 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
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those… — 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 salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — 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 man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth… — 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
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — 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
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
