George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and veracity

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him – the wonderful man and in my […]

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow […]

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.