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
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
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
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person… — 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
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
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
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the… — 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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