George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Acting Quotes

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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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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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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

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