If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. — George Bernard Shaw 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 Copy Share Image
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — 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
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively… — 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