George Bernard Shaw
10 quotes
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. You Never Can Tell , Act II”
“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. You Never Can Tell , Act I”
“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer. Candida , Act III”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Candida , Act I”
“Visits to Valhalla: The Ectasy And the Agony”
“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity . Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895”
“No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means ; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule. "The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review , LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443; reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932). Vol. 1. London: Constable & Co. 79”
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it... In The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890”
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it... In The World”
“Philosophic Radicals ,”