George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fun Quotes, Boys Quotes

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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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. 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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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

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