George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, War Quotes

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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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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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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