George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The quotations of
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
1856–1950
99 quotes, most often on Love, Morality and Clever Jabs.
I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Major Barbara (1905), Act IIThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, Preface (1898)There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), Act III (Crofts)No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #41I have to live for others and not for myself; that’s middle-class morality.
Pygmalion (1912), Act VIn contextYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
O’Flaherty V.C. (1919)Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Man and Superman (1903), p. 235When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Act IIIA fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #32He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Major Barbara (1905)Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #1- The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Preface
- Candida, Act I (1898)
- Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #160
- Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #179
