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
The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — 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
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — 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
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — 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
It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — 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
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