George Bernard Shaw

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

George Bernard Shaw

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

George Bernard Shaw

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

George Bernard Shaw

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

George Bernard Shaw

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

George Bernard Shaw

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

George Bernard Shaw

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

George Bernard Shaw