George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.
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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.