If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder… — 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
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — 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
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. — 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
