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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
George Bernard Shaw
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I never expect a soldier to think.
George Bernard Shaw -
Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.
George Bernard Shaw -
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
George Bernard Shaw -
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw -
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw -
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
George Bernard Shaw
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity...
George Bernard Shaw -
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw -
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw -
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
George Bernard Shaw -
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
George Bernard Shaw -
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw -
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
George Bernard Shaw -
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw -
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw -
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
George Bernard Shaw -
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
George Bernard Shaw
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
George Bernard Shaw -
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
George Bernard Shaw -
All progress means war with Society.
George Bernard Shaw -
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
George Bernard Shaw