George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Drama Quotes, Light Quotes

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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