George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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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.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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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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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
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Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.
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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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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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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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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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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.