George Bernard Shaw – select quotes
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don’t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
~ Character in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
~ George Bernard Shaw, in The Revolutionists Handbook
A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get into a position of power, corrupt it.
The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
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“George Bernard Shaw once sent Winston Churchill two tickets for the opening night of one of his new plays, noting, “Bring a friend — if you have one”; to which Churchill wrote back to say that hew was othewise engaged opening night, but would appreciate tickets for the second performance, “it there is one.” (Andreas I. Aristides, in The Gentle Art of the Resounding Put-Down)
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