George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Lying Quotes, Government Quotes

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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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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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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