George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.