George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Should Have Quotes, Taverns Quotes

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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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. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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