George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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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.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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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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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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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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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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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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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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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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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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Brains are not everything.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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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.