George Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan (1924)

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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

George Bernard Shaw
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

George Bernard Shaw
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles…Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

George Bernard Shaw
How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

George Bernard Shaw
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

George Bernard Shaw
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

George Bernard Shaw
Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.

George Bernard Shaw
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

George Bernard Shaw
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw
To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

George Bernard Shaw
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

George Bernard Shaw
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

George Bernard Shaw