Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — 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
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — 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
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other… — 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
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates… — 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
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than… — 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
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