9 quotes
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
The Puritan is only strong enough to stiffen; the Catholic is strong enough to relax.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
Bernard Shaw (I strongly suspect) began to disbelieve in Santa Claus at a discreditably early age.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
We all know that constancy, jealousy, and the personal pledge are natural and inevitable in sex; we do not feel any surprise when we see them either in a murder or in a valentine.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
Music is mere beauty; it is beauty in the abstract, beauty in solution. It is a shapeless and liquid element of beauty, in which a man may really float, not indeed affirming the truth, but not denying it.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
Shyness is always the sign of a divided soul; a man is shy because he somehow thinks his position at once despicable and important. If he were without humility he would not care; and if he were without pride he would not care.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
For there are two types of great humorist: those who love to see a man absurd and those who hate to see him absurd. Of the first kind are Rabelais and Dickens; of the second kind are Swift and Bernard Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
Ireland is a country in which the political conflicts are at least genuine; they are about something. They are about patriotism, about religion, or about money: the three great realities. In other words, they are concerned with what commonwealth a man lives in, or with what universe a man lives in, or with how he is to manage to live in either.
George Bernard Shaw (1909)