Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...the world will forgive you for the sake of your blazing boyishness. (Written to Lord Alfred Douglas)” — George Bernard Shaw Forgiveness Copy Share Image
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. — George Bernard Shaw Animals Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all… — George Bernard Shaw Being married Copy Share Image
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw Experiment Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities… — George Bernard Shaw Authority Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Castes Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Actors Copy Share Image
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent… — George Bernard Shaw Assumption Copy Share Image
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Benches Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George Bernard Shaw Ability Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value.They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who wantsomething for nothing… — George Bernard Shaw Christianity Copy Share Image
“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!” — George Bernard Shaw Criticism Copy Share Image
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone… — George Bernard Shaw Better man Copy Share Image
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Time Copy Share Image
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more… — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. — George Bernard Shaw Reformers Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. — George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Copy Share Image
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw Motivational Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Faith Copy Share Image
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw Comedy Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
“Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct… — George Bernard Shaw Acting Copy Share Image
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
