George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.