George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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