Quotes about George Bernard Shaw

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

You scandalous woman, will you throw away even your hypocrisy?

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Don Juan's supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails. Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.