George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Civilization Quotes, United States Quotes

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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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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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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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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