George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Hands Quotes, Design Quotes

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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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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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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