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
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. — 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
