Quotes about George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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

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

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

We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified

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

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

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?

Liza. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence. Higgins. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.