George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Society Quotes

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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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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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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