George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 15)

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”

George Bernard Shaw

Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895
1890s

“George Bernard Shaw is said to have told W. S. C.:
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend—if you have one.
W. S. C. to G. B. S.:
Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second—if there is one.”

George Bernard Shaw

Version given in Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit by Kay Halle, 1966
Apocryphal, from 1946. See discussion at Winston Churchill#Misattributed, and detailed discussion at “ Here are Two Tickets for the Opening of My Play. Bring a Friend—If You Have One http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/25/two-tickets-shaw/”, Garson O’Toole, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/, (March 25, 2012)
Misattributed

“The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.”

George Bernard Shaw

#149
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Game , Passion

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=u4xiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22You+cannot+be+a+hero+without+being+a+coward%22&pg=PR13#v=onepage
1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

“Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.”

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

“Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse — though it isn't.”

George Bernard Shaw

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

Love , Life , Art

“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”

George Bernard Shaw

Ellie Dunn, Act II
1910s, Heartbreak House (1919)

Soul

“I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Serpent, in Pt I : In the Beginning
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

George Bernard Shaw

#160
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Youth , Age , Forgiveness

“The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”

George Bernard Shaw

#83
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

God

“I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.”

George Bernard Shaw

Episode I
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

Dogs

“Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Daily Chronicle on the 7 March 1917 https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/george-bernard-shaw-joyriding-on-the-front.
1910s, The Technique of War (1917)

Way , Fight

“THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth
STREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

Search

“If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. Corrupt successes, disgraceful failures, or sheeplike vegetation are all it has to offer. I prefer Art, which gives me a sixth sense of beauty, with self-respect: perhaps also an immortal reputation in return for honest endeavour in a labour of love.”

George Bernard Shaw

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

Love , World , Beauty , Art

“My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?”

George Bernard Shaw

Act I
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)