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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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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

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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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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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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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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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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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