George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Institutions Quotes

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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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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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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