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Morality is not respectability.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

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