George Bernard Shaw Quotes, War Quotes, Army Quotes

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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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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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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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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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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