303 quotes
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Man and Superman (1903)
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
Getting Married (1908)
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
John Bull's Other Island (1907)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy (1991)
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909)
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy.
* Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors (1909)
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
The Apple Cart (1928)
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.