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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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of...

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of...

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...

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never...

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never...

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it...

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which...

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be mans guide in the...

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be mans guide in the...

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.