George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Art Quotes, Reading Quotes

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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