I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one. (Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back, “Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second – if there is one.”)
A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
Woman: You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child. Shaw: What if the child inherits my body and your brains?
I shall never have any real influence, because I have never killed anybody and don’t want to.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
