George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Elderly Quotes, Self Quotes

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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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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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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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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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

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