George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fall Quotes, Dogma Quotes

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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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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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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

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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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