George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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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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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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All progress means war with Society.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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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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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.