George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Thinking Quotes

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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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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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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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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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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