Quote

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

George Bernard Shaw

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
Artist
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Music Critic
Photographer
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Bernard Shaw
G.B. Shaw
Best
Charge
Children
Parents
People
Worst
Doubt
Parent
Funny
Mother
May

More quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Image
Any belief worth having must survive doubt
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it
George Bernard Shaw
Image
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
George Bernard Shaw