George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Morning Quotes, Laughter Quotes

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

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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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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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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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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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