George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
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THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity...
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All progress means war with Society.
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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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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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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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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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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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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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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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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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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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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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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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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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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.