George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
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Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?
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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.