George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

How I hate everything!

This government is effectively telling the American people to go to Hell.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

Sometimes it's hard to tell which evokes more anger – businesses that know and care about nothing except profits or governments that know and care about nothing except power and paper-pushing. However, anger is not a solution. Anger attempts to shout down problems, and it never works.

I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.

I get annoyed a lot with things.

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally!

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.