George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Doctors Quotes, Judging Quotes

Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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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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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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Christmas is forced upon 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.

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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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