George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Society Quotes

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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Altogether too many sheep

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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