George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Life Quotes, Dancing Quotes

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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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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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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