George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Vices Quotes, Morality Quotes

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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