George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 24

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary. (George Bernard Shaw)
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. View quote
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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. View quote
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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. View quote
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. View quote
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. View quote
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I hate, performers who debase great works of art I long for their annihilation. View quote
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done. View quote
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. View quote
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. View quote
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. (George Bernard Shaw)
What a man is depends on his character but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. View quote
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst. View quote
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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 in to existence or clearing the way for it. View quote
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In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him. View quote
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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. View quote
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. View quote
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. View quote
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland I'm a free citizen. View quote
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter. View quote
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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it. (George Bernard Shaw)
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. View quote
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There are two classes in good society in England. The equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. View quote
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries the aristocracy, of idols the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy it can only worship the national idols. View quote
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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy. View quote
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