George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do...
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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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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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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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.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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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.