If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they… — 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
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
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than… — 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
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