George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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Better never than late.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.