George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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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 only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.