George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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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.
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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.