George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Family Quotes, Country Quotes

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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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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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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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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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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