“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.” — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
“Dont be afraid: she never comes to words with anyone now, poor woman! respectability has broke all the spirit out of her.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw Christianity Copy Share Image
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. — George Bernard Shaw Achievement Copy Share Image
The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the… — George Bernard Shaw Abuse of power Copy Share Image
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Controversial Copy Share Image
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there… — George Bernard Shaw Capitalism Copy Share Image
I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has… — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church… — George Bernard Shaw Church Copy Share Image
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the… — George Bernard Shaw Italian Copy Share Image
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. — George Bernard Shaw Clever Copy Share Image
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw Burden Copy Share Image
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw Atheist Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. — George Bernard Shaw Boredom Copy Share Image
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger… — George Bernard Shaw Baby Copy Share Image
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. — George Bernard Shaw Gestures Copy Share Image
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it. — George Bernard Shaw Doubt Copy Share Image
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. — George Bernard Shaw Bachelors Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Bird Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — George Bernard Shaw Ailments Copy Share Image
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw Friend Copy Share Image
“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...” — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact. — George Bernard Shaw Facts Copy Share Image
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw Ancient greek Copy Share Image
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous… — George Bernard Shaw Battle Copy Share Image
You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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