George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Patriotic Quotes, Fighting Quotes

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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