George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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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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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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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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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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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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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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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 lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.