George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
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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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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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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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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.
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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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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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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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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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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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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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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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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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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.