“On Monday last I sat without a murmur in a stuffy theatre on a summer afternoon from three to nearly half-past 6,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the… — 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
“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time. — 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
“She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all… — 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
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere, somewhere in time's own space, there must be some sweet pastured place. Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow, some… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. — 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