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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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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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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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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