George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Play Quotes, Theatre Quotes

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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