When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is… — 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
