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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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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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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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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