George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 16)

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)

God , Way , Reading , Parting

“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.”

George Bernard Shaw

Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)

“The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.”

George Bernard Shaw

#108
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.”

George Bernard Shaw

1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)

“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

Mrs. George
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

World , Learning

“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”

George Bernard Shaw

#125
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Strong

“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

Country

“Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”

George Bernard Shaw

1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)

“A: Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000?”

George Bernard Shaw

Misattributed

Sleep

“The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government http://books.google.com/books?id=81YwAAAAYAAJ by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1922)
1940s and later

Learning , Evil , Reading

“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”

George Bernard Shaw

"The Play of Ideas", New Statesman (6 May 1950)
1940s and later

Idea

“He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.”

George Bernard Shaw

#23
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Freedom