George Bernard Shaw Form Quotations

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich: something for nothing

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.