“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
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society. — George Bernard Shaw Approval Copy Share Image
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. — George Bernard Shaw Darkness Copy Share Image
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. — George Bernard Shaw Exaggeration Copy Share Image
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done… — George Bernard Shaw Bird Copy Share Image
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations… — 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 Children Copy Share Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — George Bernard Shaw Bewildered Copy Share Image
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far… — George Bernard Shaw Danger Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the… — George Bernard Shaw Destruction Copy Share Image
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for… — George Bernard Shaw Book Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all… — George Bernard Shaw People Copy Share Image
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England… — George Bernard Shaw England Copy Share Image
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called… — George Bernard Shaw Anti christ Copy Share Image
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw Heresy Copy Share Image
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. — George Bernard Shaw Dog Copy Share Image
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them — George Bernard Shaw Character Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. — George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Copy Share Image
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw Motivational Copy Share Image
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw Comedy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Faith Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Books Copy Share Image
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw Experiment Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George Bernard Shaw Ability Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value.They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who wantsomething for nothing… — George Bernard Shaw Christianity Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!” — George Bernard Shaw Criticism Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
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