George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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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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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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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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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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Morality is not respectability.
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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.