George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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