As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned… — 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
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come. — 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
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — 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
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. — 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
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — 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
