George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Warning Quotes, Figures Quotes

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

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

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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