George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.