George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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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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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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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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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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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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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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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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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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All progress means war with Society.
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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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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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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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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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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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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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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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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.