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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am the sort of man who devotes his life to the salvation of humanity in the abstract, and can’t bear to give a penny to a starving widow (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The 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 Quotes)
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Security, the chief pretence of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone’s head (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The body always ends by being a bore. Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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 Quotes)
He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Fame is like a river, that beareth things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I am sick of reasonable people: They see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
It’s a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seems to get younger and younger (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
It isn’t mere convention. Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don’t are the wrong ones (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: The efficient and the inefficient (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Very nice sort of place, oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat till she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one? (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you? (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure. So I did ten times more work (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)