George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Sanity Quotes

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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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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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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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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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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