George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Two Quotes, Letters Quotes

As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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

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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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

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