Source: Pygmalion
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Famous George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.”
Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw
“Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.”
Source: John Bull's Other Island
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”
Source: Major Barbara
“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”
“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
“I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.”
“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”
“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.”
“Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
Source: Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy