George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Dream Quotes, Years Quotes

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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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 whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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