The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. — George Bernard Shaw Censorship Copy Share Image
I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot. — George Bernard Shaw Artist Copy Share Image
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. — George Bernard Shaw Actor Copy Share Image
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. — George Bernard Shaw Being broken Copy Share Image
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. — George Bernard Shaw Problem Copy Share Image
Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up. — George Bernard Shaw Birth Copy Share Image
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get… — George Bernard Shaw Dinner Copy Share Image
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. — George Bernard Shaw Celery Copy Share Image
“Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something! ” — George Bernard Shaw Dashed Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. — George Bernard Shaw Cigarette Copy Share Image
“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat — George Bernard Shaw Care Copy Share Image
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw Doctor Copy Share Image
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender,… — George Bernard Shaw Acceptance Copy Share Image
“At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of. No, Eliza: do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — George Bernard Shaw Death Copy Share Image
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people… — 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
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the… — George Bernard Shaw Business Copy Share Image
“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
“[T]he most elaborate code of [law]... would still have left unspecified a hundred ways in which wreckers of Communism could have sidetracked… — George Bernard Shaw Communism Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw America 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 Age Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Beauty Copy Share Image
But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous… — George Bernard Shaw Christmas Copy Share Image
“BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion, Mr Keegan. KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this… — George Bernard Shaw Becoming better Copy Share Image