The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to repres…

George Bernard Shaw
764 citations
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. ✨ George Bernard Shaw (2015). George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit, p.1111, e-artnow
Time
18

More Author Quotes

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. ✨ 1898 Sir George Crofts. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 3.
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator. ✨ The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw.
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ✨ George Bernard Shaw (2015). George Bernard Shaw: The Collected … ▶
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household. ✨ Heartbreak House (19 … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes