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Blasphemy and sedition meaning the truth about Church and State.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
George Bernard Shaw -
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
George Bernard Shaw -
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
George Bernard Shaw -
This souls' prison we call England.
George Bernard Shaw -
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw -
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
George Bernard Shaw -
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
George Bernard Shaw -
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
George Bernard Shaw -
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
George Bernard Shaw -
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw
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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
George Bernard Shaw -
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.
George Bernard Shaw -
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw -
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
George Bernard Shaw
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
George Bernard Shaw -
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
George Bernard Shaw -
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
George Bernard Shaw