An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

— George Bernard Shaw

And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation. (P. 56)

— George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

— George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

— George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

— George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

— George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

— George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

— George Bernard Shaw