George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Actors Quotes

An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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