George Bernard Shaw Quotes
1856 – 1950
Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).
“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
“I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
