George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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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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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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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 serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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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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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
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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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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.
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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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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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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
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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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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.