George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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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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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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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

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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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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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An index is a great leveller.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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