George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Laughter
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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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.
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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.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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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
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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.
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