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 cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act… — 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
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve… — 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
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much… — 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
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — 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
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 a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor… Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you?… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. — 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 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
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
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — 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 the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you… — 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
