George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 11

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. (George Bernard Shaw)
Those who understand evil pardon it. View quote
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. View quote
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. View quote
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. View quote
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. View quote
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An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. View quote
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself. View quote
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. View quote
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. View quote
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. (George Bernard Shaw)
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world. View quote
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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. View quote
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators. View quote
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. View quote
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. View quote
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him. View quote
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. View quote
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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. View quote
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. View quote
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. (George Bernard Shaw)
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. View quote
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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. View quote
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