George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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All progress means war with Society.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity...
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.