George Bernard Shaw Quotes, World Quotes

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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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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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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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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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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Heartbreak is life educating us.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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