The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I… — 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
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank… — 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
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — 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 I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life.… — 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
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
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we… — 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
