The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — 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
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single… — 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
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.… — 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
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — 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
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — 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 that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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 prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
