Play Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

— George Bernard Shaw

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

— George Bernard Shaw

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

— George Bernard Shaw

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you?…

— 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…

— George Bernard Shaw

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and…

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct…

— George Bernard Shaw

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top…

— George Bernard Shaw

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the…

— George Bernard Shaw

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single…

— George Bernard Shaw

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at…

— George Bernard Shaw

Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other…

— George Bernard Shaw

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say…

— George Bernard Shaw

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been…

— George Bernard Shaw

“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,…

— George Bernard Shaw

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one…

— George Bernard Shaw

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,…

— George Bernard Shaw