George Bernard Shaw Quotes

This craving for bouquets by Jews is a symptom of racial degeneration. The Jews are worse than my own people. Those Jews who still want to be the chosen race (chosen by the late Lord Balfour) can go to Palestine and stew in their own juice. The rest had better stop being Jews and start being human beings.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism. — Shaw's Preface

Can anything be more ridiculous than one dead person mourning for another?

In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.

<nowiki>[</nowiki>Isadora Duncan<nowiki>]</nowiki> wrote to George Bernard Shaw: "Will you be the father of my next child? A combination of my beauty and your brains would startle the world," but he replied: "I must decline your offer with thanks, for the child might have my beauty and your brains."

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth</br>STREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.

the truth about the paradoxes of Bernard Shaw. Each of them is an argument impatiently shortened into an epigram. Each of them represents a truth hammered and hardened, with an almost disdainful violence until it is compressed into a small space, until it is made brief and almost incomprehensible.

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on [Charles] Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.