Quote #246

If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you. (cited in the lead credits to the movie C.S.A. Confederate States of America; also sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde).

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
  2. Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
  3. Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
  4. Shaw knows at any moment, on any subject, what he thinks, what you will think, what others have thought, what all this thinking entails; an…
  5. Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the …
  6. Shaw: Am reserving two seats for my show. Come bring a friend - if you have one.
  7. Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory.
  8. Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.[1]

All George Bernard Shaw quotes