George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Acting Quotes, Doe Quotes

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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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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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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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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Every girl has a right to be loved.

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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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