George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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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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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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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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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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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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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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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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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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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 I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.