George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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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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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
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To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
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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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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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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.