George Bernard Shaw Quotes

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

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

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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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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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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