303 quotes
I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
Pygmalion (1912)
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Getting Married (1908)
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Major Barbara (1905)
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Everybody's Political What's What (1944)
You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place.
Getting Married (1908)
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
Arms and the Man (1898)
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.
The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
Getting Married (1908)
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
Saint Joan (1923)
What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder: God will take care of that.
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
Getting Married (1908)
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
Pygmalion (1912)
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
The Philanderer (1893)