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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
George Bernard Shaw
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
George Bernard Shaw -
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
George Bernard Shaw -
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
George Bernard Shaw -
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
George Bernard Shaw -
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
George Bernard Shaw -
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject...
George Bernard Shaw
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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw -
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!
George Bernard Shaw -
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw -
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw -
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
George Bernard Shaw -
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.
George Bernard Shaw -
I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw -
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
George Bernard Shaw -
Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
George Bernard Shaw -
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw -
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw -
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw