George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Fighting Quotes

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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