George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
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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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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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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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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
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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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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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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.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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 am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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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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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.