George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.