George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Taken Quotes, Character Quotes

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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