We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — 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
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life.… — 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
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university… — 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
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated. — 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
