There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid. — George Bernard Shaw Clever Copy Share Image
I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised… — George Bernard Shaw History Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Hegel Copy Share Image
“You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the… — George Bernard Shaw Amiable Copy Share Image
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Barbarian Copy Share Image
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was… — George Bernard Shaw Constitution Copy Share Image
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the… — George Bernard Shaw Age Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what… — George Bernard Shaw Misunderstood Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Angel Copy Share Image
“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,… — George Bernard Shaw Change Copy Share Image
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being… — George Bernard Shaw Joy Copy Share Image
“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom… — George Bernard Shaw Democracy Copy Share Image
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand. — George Bernard Shaw Democracy Copy Share Image
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. — George Bernard Shaw Degradation Copy Share Image
I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself. — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. — George Bernard Shaw Advantage Copy Share Image