Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — George Bernard Shaw Alcohol Copy Share Image
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw Agnostic Copy Share Image
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg — George Bernard Shaw Common people Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — 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 Asylums Copy Share Image
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them… — George Bernard Shaw Acting Copy Share Image
“What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw Beautiful Copy Share Image
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw Benefactors Copy Share Image
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each… — George Bernard Shaw Apples Copy Share Image
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false… — George Bernard Shaw Doctrine Copy Share Image
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our… — George Bernard Shaw Conclusion Copy Share Image
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. — George Bernard Shaw Education Copy Share Image
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You can’t rationally argue out what wasn’t rationally argued in.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Animal cruelty Copy Share Image
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. — George Bernard Shaw British Copy Share Image
“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible” — George Bernard Shaw Good man Copy Share Image
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. — George Bernard Shaw Gentleman Copy Share Image
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. — George Bernard Shaw Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. — George Bernard Shaw Fool Copy Share Image
