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George Bernard Shaw: A man of...

George Bernard Shaw: A man of...

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Source: Quoted in: Hesketh...

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George Bernard Shaw: Absolute honesty is...

George Bernard Shaw: Absolute honesty is...

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute...

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George Bernard Shaw: An asylum for...

George Bernard Shaw: An asylum for...

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Source: United States
--...

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George Bernard Shaw: Better never than...

George Bernard Shaw: Better never than...

Better never than late.

Source: Responding to an offer by a producer to present one...

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George Bernard Shaw: Am reserving two...

George Bernard Shaw: Am reserving two...

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premi?re. Come and bring a friend if you have one.

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George Bernard Shaw: Beware of the...

George Bernard Shaw: Beware of the...

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.

Source: Man & Superman, 1905
--...

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George Bernard Shaw: I began as...

George Bernard Shaw: I began as...

I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Bernard Shaw: Englishmen never will...

George Bernard Shaw: Englishmen never will...

Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to...

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George Bernard Shaw: It is a...

George Bernard Shaw: It is a...

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is...

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George Bernard Shaw: Gambling promises the...

George Bernard Shaw: Gambling promises the...

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.

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William Shakespeare: He hath a...

William Shakespeare: He hath a...

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue...

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William Shakespeare: There have been...

William Shakespeare: There have been...

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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William Shakespeare: I have had...

William Shakespeare: I have had...

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if...

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William Shakespeare: Reputation, reputation, reputation!...

William Shakespeare: Reputation, reputation, reputation!...

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation, I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what...

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William Shakespeare: A jewel in...

William Shakespeare: A jewel in...

A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine honour is my life; both grow in...

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William Shakespeare: How far that...

William Shakespeare: How far that...

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.


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Walter Bagehot: The most intellectual...

Walter Bagehot: The most intellectual...

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will....

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Believing where we...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Believing where we...

Believing where we cannot prove.

Source: In Memoriam, Prologue
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Forward the Light...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Forward the Light...

Forward the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress...

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