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
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. — 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
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
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all. — 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
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
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 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
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
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we… — 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 must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from… — 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
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
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
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
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 the English can survive their food, they can survive anything. — 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
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
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