Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. — George Bernard Shaw Achievement Copy Share Image
“When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. — George Bernard Shaw Bachelors Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Bird 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 Life Copy Share Image
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively… — George Bernard Shaw Adults Copy Share Image
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women,… — George Bernard Shaw Adventure Copy Share Image
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Capital punishment Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — George Bernard Shaw Ailments Copy Share Image
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw Atheist Copy Share Image
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. — George Bernard Shaw Gestures Copy Share Image
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger… — George Bernard Shaw Baby Copy Share Image
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. — George Bernard Shaw Boredom Copy Share Image
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it. — George Bernard Shaw Doubt Copy Share Image
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. — George Bernard Shaw Exaggeration Copy Share Image
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all… — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for… — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England… — George Bernard Shaw England Copy Share Image
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called… — George Bernard Shaw Anti christ Copy Share Image
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. — George Bernard Shaw Dog Copy Share Image
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw Heresy Copy Share Image
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw Cruelty Copy Share Image
“Dont be afraid: she never comes to words with anyone now, poor woman! respectability has broke all the spirit out of her.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.” — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image