George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fun Quotes, Boys Quotes

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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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.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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He who has never hoped can never despair

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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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.

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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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