Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The first thought inside whose mind has it appeared? He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for originality!

— Mariana Fulger

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

— Chanakya

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to…

— Wole Soyinka

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,…

— Alva Myrdal

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

— Doris Lessing

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

— Angus Deaton

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

— Wole Soyinka

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

— Bryant H. McGill