George Bernard Shaw on Humor
Browse 7 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw and filed under "humor" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #115775: "When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #154513: "My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
7 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Humor
"When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."
"The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world."
"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."
"It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New."
"Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing."