George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Lying Quotes

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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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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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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