George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Age Quotes, Twenties Quotes

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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

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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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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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