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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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