Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be… — 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
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — 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
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of… — 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
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — 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
