George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fun Quotes, Boys Quotes

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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