George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Morning Quotes, Art Quotes

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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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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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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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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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

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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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