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
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There… — 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
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — 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
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a… — 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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