George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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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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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
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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.