I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: you're tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense!… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There… — 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
