George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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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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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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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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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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