George Bernard Shaw Home Quotations

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

I 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.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.