George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Peace Quotes, Powerful Quotes

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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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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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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