George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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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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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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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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