Famous quotes by Dramatists

"It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life, and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Hell is full of musical amateurs"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation, but not the power of speech"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Youth is wasted on the young"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me?"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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