Children Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

— George Bernard Shaw

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

— George Bernard Shaw

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

— George Bernard Shaw

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

— George Bernard Shaw

I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

— George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

— George Bernard Shaw

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best…

— 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…

— George Bernard Shaw

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

— George Bernard Shaw

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a…

— George Bernard Shaw

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life.…

— George Bernard Shaw

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel…

— George Bernard Shaw

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and…

— George Bernard Shaw

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it…

— George Bernard Shaw

But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as…

— George Bernard Shaw

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes…

— George Bernard Shaw

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively…

— George Bernard Shaw

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

— George Bernard Shaw

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

— George Bernard Shaw

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

— George Bernard Shaw

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

— George Bernard Shaw

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

— George Bernard Shaw

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

— George Bernard Shaw

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

— George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

— George Bernard Shaw

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act…

— George Bernard Shaw

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

— George Bernard Shaw

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys…

— George Bernard Shaw

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are…

— George Bernard Shaw