George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
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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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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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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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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.