George Bernard Shaw

A child hasn’t a grown-up person’s appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

George Bernard Shaw

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having ‘a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.’ Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it’s weakest member.

George Bernard Shaw

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

George Bernard Shaw