I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — 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
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If a woman can by careful selection of a father, and nourishment of herself produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs… — 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… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — 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
“In one conspicuous case, that of royalty, the State does already select the parents on purely political grounds; and in the peerage,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I… — 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
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
“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
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
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
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
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
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
