George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything left for us to do, would there?

George Bernard Shaw

If you want soldiers you must have children. You can’t buy ’em in boxes, like toy soldiers.

George Bernard Shaw

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

George Bernard Shaw

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don’t let you out till you are dead.

George Bernard Shaw

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

George Bernard Shaw

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

George Bernard Shaw

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

George Bernard Shaw