George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Art Quotes, Ambition Quotes

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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

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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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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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