Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm. — George Bernard Shaw British 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 Children Copy Share Image
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,… — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid… — George Bernard Shaw Ambition Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Funny Copy Share Image
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw Constancy Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always… — 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 Always moving 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
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an… — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
“Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether… — George Bernard Shaw Agnostic 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
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality. — George Bernard Shaw Chance Copy Share Image
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. — George Bernard Shaw Men Copy Share Image
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw Adversaries Copy Share Image
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If you want soldiers you must have children. You can't buy 'em in boxes, like toy soldiers.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Ancient Copy Share Image
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not. — George Bernard Shaw Doctors 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
“O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?” — George Bernard Shaw Beautiful earth 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
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my… — George Bernard Shaw Community Copy Share Image
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Anarchist Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Accidents Copy Share Image
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. — 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
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. — George Bernard Shaw Marriage Copy Share Image
