George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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