George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fun Quotes, Boys Quotes

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

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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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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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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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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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