George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Greatness Quotes

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of 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. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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