You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw Aspiration Copy Share Image
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help… — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't… — 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
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — 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 Age Copy Share Image
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally… — George Bernard Shaw Blasphemy Copy Share Image
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him. — George Bernard Shaw Excellence Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.… — George Bernard Shaw Aristocracy Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer… — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all… — George Bernard Shaw Life 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 Age Copy Share Image
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or… — George Bernard Shaw Electorate Copy Share Image
Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go… — George Bernard Shaw Comedy Copy Share Image
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one… — George Bernard Shaw Church Copy Share Image
The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law… — George Bernard Shaw Brave Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Beautiful Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Chiefs Copy Share Image
“THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired… — George Bernard Shaw Devil Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex,… — George Bernard Shaw Attraction Copy Share Image
When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other… — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. — George Bernard Shaw Bachelor Copy Share Image
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. — George Bernard Shaw Arduous Copy Share Image
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
