In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — 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
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing. Lavinia: Then why kill me?” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the… — 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
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe… — 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
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — 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
