George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.