George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Honesty Quotes

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

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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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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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