George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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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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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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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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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.