George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Writing Quotes, Brass Bands Quotes

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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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 Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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