Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can… — 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
