With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the… — 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
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the… — 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
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far… — 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
