Major Barbara

By George Bernard Shaw QUOTATION: I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1905). Barbara Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).

QUOTATION: Really, Barbara, you go on as if religion were a pleasant subject. Do have some sense of propriety.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1905). Lady Britomart, in Major Barbara, act 1, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).

QUOTATION: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 2.

QUOTATION: He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1905). Andrew Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 3, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).

QUOTATION: He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1905). Lady Britomart, in Major Barbara, act 3, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).

QUOTATION: There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1905). Andrew Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).

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