George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Night Quotes, Men Quotes

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 truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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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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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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