Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share