"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.












When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

More George Bernard Shaw quotes
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
"While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed...
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a begi...
"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
"Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynic...
"There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things." Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion