George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Morality Quotes

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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