Works of George Bernard Shaw (30+ Works) Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Candida, The Irrational Knot, An Unsocial Socialist & more Quotes

“Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I don't consider human volcanoes respectable. And I'm so tired of the subject. Our house is always full of women in love with my husband and men in love with me. We encourage it because it's pleasant to have company.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Works of George Bernard Shaw (30+ Works) Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Candida, The Irrational Knot, An Unsocial Socialist & more

“It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Essential Bernard Shaw Collection

“But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Collected Works of Bernard Shaw: PergamonMedia

“One sunny afternoon, a hansom drove at great speed along Belsize Avenue, St. John’s Wood, and stopped before a large mansion.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Works of George Bernard Shaw

“All the other passions were in me before; but they were idle and aimless—mere childish greedinesses and cruelties, curiosities and fancies, habits and superstitions, grotesque and ridiculous to the mature intelligence. When they suddenly began to shine like newly lit flames it was by no light of their own, but by the radiance of the dawning moral passion. That passion dignified them, gave them conscience and meaning, found them a mob of appetites and organized them into an army of purposes and principles. My soul was born of that passion. ANN.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw "Irish Playwright, Critic, Polemicist and Nobel Prize Winner in Literature"! 41 Complete Works (Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Candida)

“professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Even”
― George Bernard Shaw, Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw "Irish Playwright, Critic, Polemicist and Nobel Prize Winner in Literature"! 41 Complete Works (Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Candida)

“She had learned from Jack, much to her surprise, that she could not make her face express anger or scorn by merely feeling angry or scornful.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Works of George Bernard Shaw

“MRS. FARRELL. I wouldnt compare risks run to bear living people into the world to risks run to blow them out of it. A mother’s risk is jooty: a soldier’s nothin but divilmint.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Works of George Bernard Shaw

“Perhaps it was a presentiment that it might become a  part of our old Bridgenorth burden that made me warn our  Governments so earnestly that unless the law of marriage were  first made human, it could never become divine.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Works of George Bernard Shaw

“Do not threaten me, sir,” said the old gentleman spiritedly, rising and confronting his adversary. “What right have you to interfere with the affairs of strangers — perfect strangers? Are you mad, sir; or are you merely ignorant?” “Neither. I am as well versed in the usages of the world as you; and I have sworn not to comply with them when they demand a tacit tolerance of oppression. The laws of society, sir, are designed to make the world easy for cowards and liars. And lest by the infirmity of my nature I should become either the one or the other, or perhaps both, I never permit myself to witness tyranny without rebuking it, or to hear falsehood without exposing it. If more people were of my mind, you would never have dared to take it for granted that I would witness your insolence towards your daughter without interfering to protect her.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Works of George Bernard Shaw