George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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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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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
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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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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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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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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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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
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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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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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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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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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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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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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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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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.