George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Rights Quotes, Giving Quotes

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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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.

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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

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Altogether too many sheep

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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