George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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 never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!
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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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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 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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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.