George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt...
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your copyrights.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.