George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
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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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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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Your heart and your mouth will be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
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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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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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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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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.