“The man or woman who feels strong enough for two, seeks for every other quality in a partner than strength.” — George Bernard Shaw Strength Copy Share Image
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the… — George Bernard Shaw Death Copy Share Image
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that… — George Bernard Shaw Doctor Copy Share Image
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.” — George Bernard Shaw Bad fortune Copy Share Image
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep… — George Bernard Shaw Alliance Copy Share Image
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness… — George Bernard Shaw France Copy Share Image
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. — George Bernard Shaw Accomplishment Copy Share Image
If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Ability to adapt Copy Share Image
“Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the… — George Bernard Shaw Acting Copy Share Image
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in… — George Bernard Shaw Apostles Copy Share Image
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. — George Bernard Shaw Best nature Copy Share Image
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw Ice Copy Share Image
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw Friend Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Book banning Copy Share Image
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop. — George Bernard Shaw Couple Copy Share Image
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it… — George Bernard Shaw Ferocity Copy Share Image
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? — George Bernard Shaw Dream Copy Share Image
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw Attitude Copy Share Image
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. — George Bernard Shaw Atheism Copy Share Image
