George Bernard Shaw Quotes, New York Quotes, Idols Quotes

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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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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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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

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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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