George Bernard Shaw

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

George Bernard Shaw

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

George Bernard Shaw

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

George Bernard Shaw

I have always made you my companions and friends, and allowed you perfect freedom to do and say whatever you liked, so long as you liked what I could approve of.

George Bernard Shaw

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

George Bernard Shaw

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

George Bernard Shaw

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

George Bernard Shaw

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

George Bernard Shaw