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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
George Bernard Shaw -
All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
George Bernard Shaw -
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
George Bernard Shaw -
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
George Bernard Shaw -
Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
George Bernard Shaw -
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
George Bernard Shaw -
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
George Bernard Shaw
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
George Bernard Shaw -
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
George Bernard Shaw -
To be a champion you must live like one.
George Bernard Shaw -
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
George Bernard Shaw -
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
George Bernard Shaw -
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
George Bernard Shaw -
How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
George Bernard Shaw -
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
George Bernard Shaw -
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
George Bernard Shaw -
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
George Bernard Shaw -
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.
George Bernard Shaw -
A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
George Bernard Shaw -
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
George Bernard Shaw