Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — 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
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists. — 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
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. — 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
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — 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
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — 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
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
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
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 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
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
The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people. — 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
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
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
