George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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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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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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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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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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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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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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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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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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