15 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Identity

George Bernard Shaw quotes on identity

9. You're not a man, you're a machine.

26. Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.

31. I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

41. Hail, Sphinx: salutation from Julius Caesar! I have wandered in many lands, seeking the lost regions from which my birth into this world exiled me, and the company of creatures such as I myself. I have found flocks and pastures, men and cities, but no other Caesar, no air native to me, no man kindred to me, none who can do my day's deed, and think my night's thought.

42. My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God- nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

119. In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

141. Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

144. A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. (Preface)

166. He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!

186. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.

213. Irish history is something no Englishman should forget and no Irishman should remember.

222. Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

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224. Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it:

233. The ordinary Britisher imagines that God is an Englishman

240. We have established what you are, madam. We are now merely haggling over the price.