George Bernard Shaw

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

George Bernard Shaw

An index is a great leveller.

George Bernard Shaw

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

George Bernard Shaw

An Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination.

George Bernard Shaw

An Irishman’s imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can’t face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be ‘agreeable to strangers’, like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

George Bernard Shaw

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

George Bernard Shaw

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

George Bernard Shaw