George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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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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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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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.