George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Motherhood Quotes

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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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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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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