“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
Source: Back to Methuselah
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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
Annajanska (1919)
1910s
Source: Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Variant: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Everybody's Political What's What (1944), Ch. 30, p. 256
1940s and later
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra
Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ <br class="br">Source: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
Source: Man and Superman