George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Ideas Quotes

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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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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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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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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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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

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