George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Conceited Quotes

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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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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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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