I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time. — 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
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. — 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
