George Bernard Shaw Quotes, World Quotes

Syllables govern the world.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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

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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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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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

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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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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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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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