George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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