George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

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• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

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• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

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• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

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• People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

  

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• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

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• One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

  

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• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  

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• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

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• I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

  

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  

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• I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

  

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• I was always amazed when people were kind to us.

  

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• In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.

  

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• If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

  

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• People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

  

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• It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.

  

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• We have a good relationship, but she is completely different than me. My sister, she is not sporty at all.

  

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• Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

  

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  

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• There’s nothing submitted and nothing ready to go, but I can definitely tell you that there’s a project on the way. I just can’t tell you when it’s coming. I can tell you for sure that I will be releasing another single in the next two months. It’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever made. It probably is my very favorite song that I’ve ever made, nothing against “My Love.”

  

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• The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

  

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• In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

  

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• Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Virtues
  • Courageous
  • Neglect