Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — 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 Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw 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 take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
