George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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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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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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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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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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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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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.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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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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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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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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.