George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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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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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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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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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.