George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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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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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
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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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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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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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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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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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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.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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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.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.