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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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