George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Tired Quotes, Men Quotes

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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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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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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