George Bernard Shaw

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

George Bernard Shaw

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

George Bernard Shaw

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can’t have a whirlpool without water; and you can’t have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

George Bernard Shaw

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

George Bernard Shaw