George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 31

O Lord I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do. (George Bernard Shaw)
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. View quote
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. View quote
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. View quote
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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians. View quote
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. View quote
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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married. View quote
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We educate one another and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. View quote
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. View quote
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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 American as 99 an idiot. And they adore me. View quote
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How can what an Englishman believes be heresy It is a contradiction in terms. (George Bernard Shaw)
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretense of reluctance. View quote
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There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject. View quote
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level. . View quote
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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. View quote
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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing.... It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing. View quote
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You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. View quote
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. View quote
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The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand. View quote
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this ... because ... I am a natural-born mountebank. View quote
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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)
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. View quote
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. View quote
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all crimes. View quote
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish. View quote
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