George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Father Quotes

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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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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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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