Quote #19

That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
  2. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
  3. Why was I born with such contemporaries?
  4. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
  5. To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
  6. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
  7. [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
  8. You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'

All George Bernard Shaw quotes