The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when… — 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
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I… — 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
