The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I object to all punishment whatsoever. I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Vital art comes always from a cross between art and life: art being of one sex only, and quite sterile by itself.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only… — 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
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living... A part of eugenic politics would… — 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
