With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — 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
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest… — 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
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say… — 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
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been… — 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
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself… — 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
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all… — 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
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