In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Oh, it’s a fine life, the life of the gutter. It’s real: it’s warm: it’s violent: you can feel it through the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I have never sneered in my life. Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul. I am expressing my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life… — 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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — 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
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — 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
