George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Italian Quotes, Play Quotes

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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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.

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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 into existence or clearing the way for it.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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