Quote #31
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
More from George Bernard Shaw
- God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
- An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
- Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and …
- The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
- Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
- It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.