I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
George Bernard ShawIn an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
George Bernard ShawWell, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
George Bernard ShawI wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
George Bernard Shaw