George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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Better never than late.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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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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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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