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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
George Bernard Shaw -
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw -
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
George Bernard Shaw -
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw -
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw -
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
George Bernard Shaw -
All great art and literature is propaganda.
George Bernard Shaw -
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
George Bernard Shaw -
Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.
George Bernard Shaw -
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
George Bernard Shaw
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
George Bernard Shaw -
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.
George Bernard Shaw -
I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
George Bernard Shaw -
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw -
You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
George Bernard Shaw
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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw -
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
George Bernard Shaw