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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. (George Bernard Shaw)
Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation. View quote
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If Pygmalion, is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. View quote
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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. View quote
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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. View quote
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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'. View quote
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. View quote
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. View quote
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet. View quote
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You dont expect me to know what to say about a play when I dont know who the author is, do you ... If its by a good author, its a good play, naturally. That stands to reason. (George Bernard Shaw)
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. View quote
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. View quote
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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. View quote
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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. View quote
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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. View quote
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The open mind never acts when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions. View quote
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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit. View quote
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community. View quote
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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day. View quote
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death. (George Bernard Shaw)
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience. View quote
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people and what do you always find That the stables are the real centre of the household. View quote
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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. View quote
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases. View quote
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