Author Profile
George Bernard Shaw
1856 – 1950 • Irish • Playwright
232
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 232 quotesThe idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!— George Bernard Shaw
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.— George Bernard Shaw
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.— George Bernard Shaw
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.— George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.— George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.— George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.— George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.— George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.— George Bernard Shaw