George Bernard Shaw ( 10 of 199 )
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the saddling read more
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child
with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while read more
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
