George Bernard Shaw

(325 votes)   Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(321 votes)   The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(316 votes)   The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(304 votes)   I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(290 votes)   I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(285 votes)   Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(281 votes)   The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man insists on adapting the world to himself; therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man

George Bernard Shaw

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(279 votes)   Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(269 votes)   What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(267 votes)   A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(267 votes)   There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(265 votes)   The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(264 votes)   In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(249 votes)   A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(247 votes)   When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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