George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Mean Quotes, Equality Quotes

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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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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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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