George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

George Bernard Shaw

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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

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• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

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• 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

  

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• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

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• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

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• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

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• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

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• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

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• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

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• I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.

  

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• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

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• I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.

  

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• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  

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• So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.

  

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• I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.

  

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• I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

  

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• I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

  

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• Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

  

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• The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

  

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• When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law
  • Order
  • Morals