George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Wish Quotes, Morality Quotes

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

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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

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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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