The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. — George Bernard Shaw Affection Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Folly Copy Share Image
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Communication Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is… — George Bernard Shaw Advantage Copy Share Image
“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.” — George Bernard Shaw Born free Copy Share Image
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you… — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been… — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw Bible Copy Share Image
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one… — George Bernard Shaw Barbarism Copy Share Image
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. — George Bernard Shaw Eating Copy Share Image
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any… — George Bernard Shaw Creation Copy Share Image
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now — George Bernard Shaw Environmental Copy Share Image
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her — George Bernard Shaw Psychology Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Appreciation Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Autobiographies Copy Share Image
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Consideration Copy Share Image
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
“the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.” — George Bernard Shaw August Copy Share Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw Ancestry Copy Share Image
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw Biggest problem Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. — George Bernard Shaw Husband Copy Share Image
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools… — George Bernard Shaw Adoration Copy Share Image
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are… — George Bernard Shaw Faces Copy Share Image
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. — George Bernard Shaw Clever Copy Share Image
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw Burden Copy Share Image
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the… — George Bernard Shaw Italian Copy Share Image
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image