1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
George Bernard Shaw – [Truth]
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
George Bernard Shaw – [God]
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw – [Virtue]
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
George Bernard Shaw – [Royalty]
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw – [Cooperation]
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw – [Future]
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw – [Happiness]
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw – [Faith]
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
George Bernard Shaw – [Soul]
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
George Bernard Shaw – [Purpose]
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw – [Shame]
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw – [Honesty]
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
George Bernard Shaw – [Politicians and Politics]
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
George Bernard Shaw – [Churches]
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
George Bernard Shaw – [Madness]
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
George Bernard Shaw – [Respectability]
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw – [Riches]
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw – [Virtue]
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw – [Churches]
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw – [Flattery]
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