George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
Shaw, George Bernard. Three Plays for Puritans. Grant Richards, 1901, p. 122.
The association with a bag involves the hunting customs of the time. When small animals were killed or captured they would be put into a bag for transporting back. Hence the expression of someone “bagging” game. Politics was not a gentle activity amongst the “gentlemen” who then practiced it in England.
This was the lesson we learned in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, American leadership at the time knew little of this quotation.
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
