The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Copy Share Image
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to… — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money. — George Bernard Shaw Love Copy Share Image
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw Ascetic Copy Share Image
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation . — George Bernard Shaw Generations Copy Share Image
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. — George Bernard Shaw Democracy Copy Share Image
“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.” — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard… — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and… — 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 Government Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Crime Copy Share Image
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Pickering : You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes… — George Bernard Shaw Fools Copy Share Image
“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
“I could do without my warhorse; I could drag about in a skirt; I could let the banners and the trumpets and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — 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
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
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 Argument Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being… — George Bernard Shaw Happiness Copy Share Image
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. — George Bernard Shaw Communication Copy Share Image
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. — George Bernard Shaw Death Copy Share Image
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. ” — George Bernard Shaw Assassination Copy Share Image
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. — George Bernard Shaw Humans Copy Share Image
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress. — George Bernard Shaw Actors Copy Share Image
