I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as…

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it...

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it...

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking...

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking...

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next...

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next...

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency...

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency...

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.