If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — 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
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
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
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
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. — 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
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
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
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get… — 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
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
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — 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
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it… — 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
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
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? — 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
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. — 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 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
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 cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have. — 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
