I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro… — 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
