George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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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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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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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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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
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An index is a great leveller.
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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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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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
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Brains are not everything.
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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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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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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.