Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. — George Bernard Shaw Being irish Copy Share Image
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. — George Bernard Shaw Burdens Copy Share Image
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as… — George Bernard Shaw Child Copy Share Image
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life… — George Bernard Shaw Baby Copy Share Image
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. — George Bernard Shaw Chiefs Copy Share Image
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. — George Bernard Shaw Differences Copy Share Image
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited… — George Bernard Shaw Differences Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned… — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Body Copy Share Image
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him… — George Bernard Shaw Colleagues Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on… — George Bernard Shaw Language Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he… — George Bernard Shaw Differences Copy Share Image
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the… — George Bernard Shaw Providence Copy Share Image
You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government. — George Bernard Shaw Choices Copy Share Image
Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! — George Bernard Shaw Advice Copy Share Image
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” — George Bernard Shaw Biggest problem Copy Share Image
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead… — George Bernard Shaw Humor Copy Share Image
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Poetry Copy Share Image
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw Audience Copy Share Image
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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