Asceticism Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

— George Bernard Shaw

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

— George Bernard Shaw

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

“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

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

— George Bernard Shaw