It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of… — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character. — 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
