George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Book Quotes

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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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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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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