George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Laughter

• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Candida (1898) act 1

• This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Laughter, Boredom

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

• Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Theatre, Evening

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

• The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Men, Evil

  "The Quintessence of Ibsenism (What is the New Element in the Norwegian School?)". Essay by George Bernard Shaw, 1891.

• That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Evil, Laughing

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