George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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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.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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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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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?
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of 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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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.