George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 18

A lifetime of happiness no man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw)
If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you. View quote
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. View quote
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it... View quote
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. View quote
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I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing. View quote
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Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration? View quote
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. View quote
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you. View quote
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men. View quote
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. (George Bernard Shaw)
What is life but a series of inspired follies... View quote
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again. View quote
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Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight. View quote
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You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you. View quote
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Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry 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. View quote
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well. View quote
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I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man. View quote
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They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction. View quote
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Howbeit, Paul succeeded in stealing the image of Christ crucified for the figure-head of his Salvationist vessel, with its Adam posing as the natural man, its doctrine of original sin, and its damnation avoidable only by faith in the sacrifice of the cross. In fact, no sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus. View quote
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon. (George Bernard Shaw)
Why was I born with such contemporaries? View quote
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. View quote
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Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant. View quote
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't. View quote
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