George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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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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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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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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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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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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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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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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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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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.
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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.