In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? — 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
“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!” — 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
“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,… — 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
The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. — 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
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
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
