George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
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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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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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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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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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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that...
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Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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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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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.