George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Thinking Quotes

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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