George Bernard Shaw Quotes, War Quotes, Romance Quotes

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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