George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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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 vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.