George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Civilization Quotes, United States Quotes

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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