George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.
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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff indicating her body, this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.
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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...