George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Theatre Quotes

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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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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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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