George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Kings Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

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. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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Morality is not respectability.

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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