George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Queens Quotes, Real Quotes

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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