A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth — 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
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
“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
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
“[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
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On… — 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… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On… — 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 thoroughly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as… — 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
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly… — 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
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image