George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?
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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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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 want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.