George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 14)
George Bernard Shaw trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.”
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.”
1910s, Misalliance (1910)
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
Act IV
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.”
#88
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Franklyn, in Pt. II : The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”
The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1908)
1900s
Lilith, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Preface, Paul
1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)
“Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.”
Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“Happiness and Beauty are by-products.”
#102
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
#89
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”
As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later
“Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.”
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
“The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.”
From Why You Should Never be a Christian (1987) by Ishaq 'Kunle Sanni and Dawood Ayodele Amoo.
Misattributed
“Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
Act II
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
Leo
1900s, Getting Married (1908)