• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> George Bernard Shaw Quotes
  • George Bernard Shaw Quotes   1348
  • Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , People Quotes , Weakness Quotes
  • Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Queens Quotes , Real Quotes
  • The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , War Quotes , Lying Quotes