George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 6

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. (George Bernard Shaw)
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. View quote
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I cant talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. View quote
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether its a man or a dog. Theyre the best for every day. View quote
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It is well to be off with the Old Woman before youre on with the new. View quote
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. View quote
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. View quote
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. View quote
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. View quote
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. View quote
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. (George Bernard Shaw)
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. View quote
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. View quote
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. View quote
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven. View quote
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. View quote
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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. View quote
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. View quote
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Youth is wasted on the young. View quote
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. View quote
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. (George Bernard Shaw)
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. View quote
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. View quote
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. View quote
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. View quote
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