George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Want Quotes

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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