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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
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| "A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| "Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| "What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead." George Bernard Shaw |
| "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw |
| ...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution. George Bernard Shaw |
| Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw |
| Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. George Bernard Shaw |
| A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw |
| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw |
| A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw |
| A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw |
| A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. George Bernard Shaw |
| A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all things by making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw |
| A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. George Bernard Shaw |
| A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. George Bernard Shaw |
| A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. George Bernard Shaw |
| A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. George Bernard Shaw |
| A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. George Bernard Shaw |
| A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw |
| A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| 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. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural George Bernard Shaw |
| Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell. George Bernard Shaw |
| All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw |
| All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| All progress means war with society. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them George Bernard Shaw |
| All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain. George Bernard Shaw |
| Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable George Bernard Shaw |
| An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. George Bernard Shaw |
| And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends George Bernard Shaw |
| Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw |
| Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. George Bernard Shaw |
| As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish George Bernard Shaw |
| At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw |
| Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter. George Bernard Shaw |
| Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days ? George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality. George Bernard Shaw |
| Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Beware of the man whose God is in the skies George Bernard Shaw |
| Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives George Bernard Shaw |
| Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted. George Bernard Shaw |
| Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw |
| Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men George Bernard Shaw |
| Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. George Bernard Shaw |
| Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. George Bernard Shaw |
| Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw |
| Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. George Bernard Shaw |
| Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw |
| Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw |
| Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.1903, Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw |
| Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed. George Bernard Shaw |
| Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw |
| Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to The Children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. George Bernard Shaw |
| Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young George Bernard Shaw |
| England and America are two countries divided by a common language. George Bernard Shaw |
| England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw |
| Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw |
| Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw |
| Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. George Bernard Shaw |
| Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. George Bernard Shaw |
| Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. George Bernard Shaw |
| Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw |
| Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw |
| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw |
| Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty George Bernard Shaw |
| Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. George Bernard Shaw |
| General consultant to mankind. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Get married, but never to a man who is home all day George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex. George Bernard Shaw |
| Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. George Bernard Shaw |
| Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation. George Bernard Shaw |
| Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted? George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. George Bernard Shaw |
| Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw |
| He who has never hoped can never despair. George Bernard Shaw |
| He who has never hoped can never despair.Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw |
| He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw |
| Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned George Bernard Shaw |
| Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. George Bernard Shaw |
| Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse George Bernard Shaw |
| Home life, as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. George Bernard Shaw |
| I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it woul George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw |
| I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum George Bernard Shaw |
| I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. George Bernard Shaw |
| I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite George Bernard Shaw |
| I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. George Bernard Shaw |
| I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. George Bernard Shaw |
| I know of only one duty, and that is to love. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it George Bernard Shaw |
| I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday. George Bernard Shaw |
| I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. George Bernard Shaw |
| I make a Fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. George Bernard Shaw |
| I never expect a soldier to think. George Bernard Shaw |
| I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. George Bernard Shaw |
| I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw |
| I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. George Bernard Shaw |
| I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many? George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place. George Bernard Shaw |
| I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. George Bernard Shaw |
| I want to be all used up when I die. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw |
| If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw |
| If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam George Bernard Shaw |
| If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw |
| If I wanted any shit from you, I'd scrape it off your dick! George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| If parents would only realize how they bore their children! George Bernard Shaw |
| If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw |
| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw |
| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw |
| If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog George Bernard Shaw |
| If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters George Bernard Shaw |
| If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. George Bernard Shaw |
| If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. George Bernard Shaw |
| Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw |
| Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will. George Bernard Shaw |
| In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| 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. George Bernard Shaw |
| In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win George Bernard Shaw |
| In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. George Bernard Shaw |
| In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. George Bernard Shaw |
| In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw |
| Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw |
| Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. George Bernard Shaw |
| It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw |
| 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. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| It is most unwise for people in love to marry. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief George Bernard Shaw |
| It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. George Bernard Shaw |
| It shows how dangerous it is to be too good George Bernard Shaw |
| It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. George Bernard Shaw |
| It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. George Bernard Shaw |
| It would positively be a relief to me to dig him [Shakespeare] up and throw stones at him. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date George Bernard Shaw |
| It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. George Bernard Shaw |
| Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw |
| Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake. George Bernard Shaw |
| Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination George Bernard Shaw |
| Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw |
| Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw |
| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw |
| Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite. George Bernard Shaw |
| Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born George Bernard Shaw |
| Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. George Bernard Shaw |
| Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw |
| Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. George Bernard Shaw |
| Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw |
| Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make George Bernard Shaw |
| Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw |
| Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. George Bernard Shaw |
| Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. George Bernard Shaw |
| Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married George Bernard Shaw |
| Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Morality is not respectability. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Most people do not pray; they only beg. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. George Bernard Shaw |
| My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen. George Bernard Shaw |
| My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. George Bernard Shaw |
| My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw |
| My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. George Bernard Shaw |
| My specialty is being right when other people are wrong George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. George Bernard Shaw |
| New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. George Bernard Shaw |
| Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. George Bernard Shaw |
| Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. George Bernard Shaw |
| 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. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| No man ever believes that The Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
| No man ever believes that The Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Nothing can be unconditional; consequently nothing can be free. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. George Bernard Shaw |
| Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled George Bernard Shaw |
| Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. George Bernard Shaw |
| Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. George Bernard Shaw |
| Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition. George Bernard Shaw |
| Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. George Bernard Shaw |
| Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw |
| Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw |
| Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. George Bernard Shaw |
| People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person. George Bernard Shaw |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them George Bernard Shaw |
| People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them George Bernard Shaw |
| People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw |
| Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?"
Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
George Bernard Shaw |
| Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw |
| Property is organized robbery. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. George Bernard Shaw |
| Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw |
| Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw |
| Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations. George Bernard Shaw |
| Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. George Bernard Shaw |
| Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Remarks |
| Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. George Bernard Shaw |
| Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. George Bernard Shaw |
| She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech George Bernard Shaw |
| She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position. George Bernard Shaw |
| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw |
| Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English George Bernard Shaw |
| Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not. George Bernard Shaw Adages |
| Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"frequently attributed to Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, who used it in a speech which his brother, Edward F. (Teddy) Kennedy quoted at RFK's funeral. George Bernard Shaw |
| Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| Success covers a multitude of blunders George Bernard Shaw |
| Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw Sayings |
| Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? George Bernard Shaw |
| That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. George Bernard Shaw Popular Quotes |
| The 100% American is 99% an idiot. George Bernard Shaw Quotations |
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