George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Roots Quotes, Virtue Quotes

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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